Venezuela: Podemos tries to sabotage a resolution of the European Parliament on the Maduro dictatorship

Podemos has tried to sabotage the debate and subsequent vote on a resolution in which the European Parliament is working on the situation in Venezuela. The European parliamentary groups, which have opposed the removal from the agenda, continue to negotiate a text in which they will position themselves on the state of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro. make up both the delegation of Podemos and the United Left in the European Parliament, has asked that the debate and the resolution on Venezuela that had been included in the draft agenda be removed from the session’s agenda. a joint text that will go forward in a vote that will take place next Thursday. Each of them has a representative who will draft and negotiate the document on which the debate that will take place this Tuesday from eight in the afternoon will be based. Two days later, the European Parliament will cast its vote to carry out, or not, a resolution on the situation of the Venezuelan dictatorship.The creation of this text has not pleased the European left that includes Podemos because they see it as interference in foreign policy. Idoia Villanueva, MEP from the morados and new secretary for international affairs of the formation, has been in charge of censoring the debate on the situation in Venezuela. The proposal of the European Left has been rejected by the vast majority of the European Parliament and will take place normally. The 20 MEPs belonging to the European Socialists have abstained from voting. In addition to the European United Left, their vote has been significant as they decided not to vote against the previous proposal.