The Popular Party, Citizens and Vox have charged the new high representative of the European Union's Foreign Policy for "surrendering" to the regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and for "not planting battle" before this dictatorship. Josep Borrell said Wednesday "realism" before the Venezuelan situation because "things are as they are."

The former Foreign Minister of Spain said: "You have to be realistic. Things are as they are. Almost a year later, Juan Guaidó is still where he was and Nicolás Maduro is where. If Maduro does not want to leave, we have a problem; this it is not fixed with invitations to divinity. "

These demonstrations have caused discomfort to the right of the European Chamber and between the center right and the right in Spain. As the MEP Leopoldo López Gil said on Wednesday in plenary, it is necessary to "put an end to this dictatorship with adequate leadership of the high representative and raising the sanctions on those responsible for the continuing violations of human rights."

In conversation with EL MUNDO, Leopoldo López has described the position of the former minister as "naive": "He lacks information and gets carried away by prejudices." In his opinion, the solution in Venezuela is no longer through dialogue, but rather "hardening the pressure" against the regime to achieve "a true transition to democracy."

López, MEP of the Popular Party , is the father of Leopoldo López, one of the most emblematic opponents and political prisoners of Venezuela .

The PP parliamentarian is very upset with Borrell because the high representative compared the Venezuelan opposition with "the followers of Donald Trump", which he considers "a great insult" and a "huge disregard" with the opponents of the dictatorship.

The Latin American coordinator of Renew Europe , Citizens MEP Jordi Cañas , has accused Borrell in conversation with EL MUNDO of "surrendering before planting battle" before the Maduro regime. More than "realism," Borrell demonstrates "disability, incompetence and helplessness," he denounced.

"If at the beginning of his term, Borrell does not send a clear and forceful message that it is necessary and essential that democracy return to Venezuela and that Maduro's illegitimate regime must accept it without further delay or suffer the consequences of a tightening of sanctions to the members of the regime, badly begins ", has assured.

In the opinion of the Orange MEP, "Venezuela does not need palliative measures that underpin the regime. It needs to overthrow the regime and recover democracy." Therefore, Borrell's attitude seems "resigned and helpless."

Cañas denounces that in the face of "realism" that Borrell asks, "the real thing is that there are more than 4.5 million exiles because of the situation of political persecution and the brutal economic crisis." "The real thing," he continued, "is that there are hundreds of extrajudicial executions, detained and tortured politicians, harassment and threats to dissidents."

Vox: Borrell, "lobby of Chavismo"

Harder was Vox. MEP Hermann Tertsch has accused Borrell of coming to his position as "lobby of Chavismo" and as "protector of regimes such as those of Cuba and Venezuela."

The MEP of Vox has admitted that Borrell's position is not new, but part of the one that his predecessor, Federica Mogherini , already maintained, but with "a continuity for the worse" and "with the most contempt for the European Parliament that brings Borrell. "

Tertsch believes that the former Spanish minister assumes the position "protecting the Ibero-American dictatorships" as does the Government of Pedro Sánchez, who is "obedient to Caracas and Havana."

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