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VENEZUELA: More EU countries recognise opposition leader Guaido as Russia condemns interference

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VENEZUELA: More EU countries recognise opposition leader Guaido as Russia condemns interference

More pressure continues to pile on Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro to call for fresh polls or relinquish power as France, Germany, Austria, Sweden and Denmark have joined Britain and Spain in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president of the South American country.

In a Twitter post on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said his country recognises Guaido as an “acting president to implement an electoral process”.

Reports say the coordinated move from the major European nations came after the expiry of an eight-day deadline they set last weekend for President Nicolas Maduro to call a new presidential vote.

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Meanwhile, Maduro’s major supporter Russia has critcised what it said were attempts to interfere in Venezuela’s domestic affairs after major European countries recognised Guaido as the South American country’s interim leader.

“Attempts to legitimise usurped power” constituted “interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.

Such interference, he added, could not facilitate the “peaceful, effective and lasting settlement of the crisis the Venezuelans are going through”.

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