Venezuelan Maduro calls EU election observers ‘spies’ | Nicolas Maduro News

Observers also said the election looked better than in previous years, but complained about other practices.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called for “spying” of the European Union (EU) election observer mission last week. regional elections.

Maduro’s criticism came on Sunday when observers announced the election, how representatives of the opposition parties took part for the first time in four years, they are doing better than in previous years.

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Maduro, whose ruling Socialist party strongly scrutinized the gubernatorial and mayoral elections, said EU observers wanted to “corrupt the election and could not”.

“The spy agents – who were not observers – roamed freely across the country, looking at the lives of the people, the economy and the country’s politics,” Maduro said on state television, adding that the elections were “good, beautiful”.

The project supervisors did not immediately respond to the allegations.

EU observers were deployed for the first time in 15 years as part of several allowances from the Maduro government to encourage the participation of dissidents, who have boycotted all elections in the country since 2018 amid allegations of fraud and intimidation.

The move came as Maduro, who was elected president in 2013, sought the favor of Western nations in anticipation of sanctions, which have stalled the country’s economy.

The US is one of the countries that has not recognized Maduro’s leadership since the 2018 general election, which opposition leader Juan Guaido said he had won.

A group of 1,000 EU members will submit a full election report within two months.

Opposition parties have not been successful in recent elections, taking only three of the 23 governors and 117 mayors in a run-off election with 210 mayors.

Several mayoral candidates had not been invited, and one embassy office – in the Barinas-based Maduro state – was not named.

Despite winning, the Socialists’ vote dropped to less than four million, according to figures from the country’s electoral commission, down from 5.9 million who won the 2017 general election.

On Sunday, Maduro said he would hold meetings “in the coming hours” with the opposition governors, but did not say much.