The European Union adopted this Friday sanctions against 15 Venezuelan officials, including the president of the Supreme Court, Caryslia Rodríguezy positions of the National Electoral Council, for their involvement in the irregularities registered in the elections in Venezuela and for proclaim Nicolas Maduro winner of the presidential elections without presenting any evidence to support the result.
The Twenty-seven respond in this way to the political crisis in Venezuela expanding existing sanctions to add 15 more people to its ‘blacklist’as agreed by the 27 at the end of the year to increase the list to 70 individuals.
This movement comes the third, without having published the complete scrutiny to confirm his electoral victory on July 28.
Member States They blame Caryslia Rodríguez for declaring Maduro’s victory “incontestable” in the presidential elections, a step that the Supreme Court took without disclosing the detailed voting data on which its ruling was based and despite the irregularities in the management of the electoral process by the CNE.
He also accuses him of interfere in opposition primary electionsobstructing their participation in the presidential elections. “The actions of Caryslia Rodríguez have undermined democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela“, indicated the legal text consulted by Europa Press after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU.
Among those sanctioned, the EU includes the vice president of the Supreme Court, Fanny Márquezalready other judges of the Supreme Court for certifying Maduro’s victory and for his maneuvers to disqualify opposition leader María Corina Machado from the electoral race, suspending her electoral rights.
In the same line, The bloc targets CNE leaders for the irregularities registered in the framework of the July electionsspecifically for delays in electoral center processes and for hide messages that revealed these irregularities.
