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The petition committee of the European Parliament will ask the Government of Pedro Sánchez for explanations for the passage through the Madrid-Barajas airport on January 20 of the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez.

The commission will also approach the European Commission to observe the case

of Nicolás Maduro's

and collect the available information.

This was announced by the president of the European Parliament, the PP

MEP

, after listening to two Spanish petitioners who denounce that Spain did not enforce the European sanctions against those responsible for the repression in Venezuela when Rodríguez landed in Madrid.

In the brief debate that followed the presentation of the petitions, an expert from the European External Action Service on sanctions regimes explained that the treaties "do not provide for the possibility of conducting specific investigations" against Member States for violating these frameworks of coercive measures, so that Brussels could not initiate a sanctioning file against a country that violated the sanctions agreed to Twenty-seven.

However, the European expert added, this does not imply that there is no legal obligation on the part of the Member States to apply the sanctions and to "take all possible measures to avoid the entry" into Community soil of people registered on a list. of EU sanctions.

Requirements to the Government

Thus, Monsterrat has considered that this allows it to go to the Community Executive to demand that it collect all the available information and also to go to the rotating presidency of the EU, which Germany occupies this semester, to request the Council to gather data on the Member State compliance.

A letter will also be addressed to the Government of Pedro Sánchez, as Monsterrat explained, "requiring all the information" to explain what measures were taken at the time "to prevent the entry into" national territory of sanctioned persons.

Several Spanish MEPs have intervened in the debate, mostly to criticize that Spain allowed the Venezuelan vice president to make a stopover in Barajas despite the fact that her name appears on the list of those sanctioned by the EU for violating fundamental rights in Venezuela.

This has been expressed, for example, by

(PP),

(Citizens) and

(Vox), who have denounced what they consider a "serious" violation of the sanctions regime and have warned of the damage to credibility of this type of violations.

The role of Ábalos

Only the PSOE MEP

has defended the government's management and, in particular, of the Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, who has said that "he avoided a diplomatic conflict" by going to the airport where he met Rodríguez and " it prevented "their entry into European territory.

The socialist has reproached critical MEPs for the "instrumentalization" of the petition commission to attack the Government.

Also Latvian MEP

(

), who has asked Spanish MEPs not to resort to the European debate to solve "national problems".

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