{"id":7735,"date":"2024-08-25T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:19:19","slug":"eu-extremely-concerned-over-venezuela-election-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/eu-extremely-concerned-over-venezuela-election-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"EU &#8216;extremely concerned&#8217; over Venezuela election crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The EU said it is &#8220;extremely concerned&#8221; about the deepening political crisis in Venezuela, where the results of the presidential election last month have been rejected by the opposition, the bloc&#8217;s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Caracas has still not provided the &#8220;necessary evidence to assess the electoral process&#8221;, Borrell said. The opposition has insisted its candidate won.<br \/>\n&#8220;Only complete and independently verifiable results will be accepted and recognised,&#8221; the EU&#8217;s top diplomat added.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell said according to some polling station records, opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia &#8220;would appear to be the winner of the presidential election by a significant majority&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe appealed for polling station records to be published in full &#8220;to ensure that the will of the Venezuelan people is respected&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s strongman leader Nicolas Maduro has called for the arrest of Gonzalez Urrutia, who has not been seen in public since leading a July 30 opposition march. Prosecutors summoned him for questioning Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Protests following the disputed vote on July 28 left 27 people dead, 192 injured and about 2,400 arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU said it is &#8220;extremely concerned&#8221; about the deepening political crisis in Venezuela, where the results of the presidential election last month have been rejected by the opposition, the bloc&#8217;s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Sunday. Caracas has still not provided the &#8220;necessary evidence to assess the electoral process&#8221;, Borrell said. The opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7737,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions\/7737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}