Jean-Luc
Melenchon, former head of the European Parliament, condemned critics
of Venezuela's electoral process as U.S. "puppets."
As the
United States continues to claim Venezuela's presidential elections
are illegitimate, the leader of France's radical left has defended
the Latin American nation's electoral process, condemning critics as
U.S. "puppets."
Jean-Luc
Melenchon, former head of the European Parliament, denied U.S. claims
that the international community is rejecting the elections: "There
are a certain number of countries, the puppets of the United States,
which have decided that these elections did not suit them."
In an
interview with La Chaine Info (LCI) and RTL, a French radio network,
Melenchon said that Spain's former socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero also approved of Venezuela's electoral system.
"It
is not true that the opposition has boycotted, because there are
three other candidates," he said.
The
leader of France Insumisa, the left-wing populist and democratic
socialist party, also acknowledged "there is a great difficulty
in Venezuela," which he said was caused by the fall in oil
prices.
Melenchon
also said: "There was a terrifying crisis that comes from a part
of the opposition that is violent... it has created such an explosive
situation."
He
concluded by condemning foreign interference by the French government
of Emmanuel Macron, along with other EU member states which he said
have repeatedly failed the electoral process in Venezuela.
Earlier,
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert posted on Twitter:
"The so-called elections in Venezuela today are not legitimate.
"The
United States is on the side of the democratic nations in the world
that support the Venezuelan people and their sovereign right to elect
their representatives in free and fair elections."
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