Venezuela: Maduro invites EU and UN to send observers to legislative elections

The Venezuelan government announced on Wednesday that it had invited the United Nations and the European Union (EU) to send observers for the legislative elections on December 6.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Twitter.

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Antonio Guterres is the Secretary General of the UN and Josep Borrell, the head of EU diplomacy.

This invitation took place the day after the pardon granted by the Head of State Nicolas Maduro to a hundred opponents, including deputies and collaborators of the leader of the opposition Juan Guaido, to

, Three months before these legislative elections that the opposition calls to boycott.

The ballot must ensure the renewal of Parliament, the only institution in the hands of the opposition.

The latter considers that its organization by the Chavist power is

Josep Borrell called at the beginning of August for a postponement of the legislative elections, considering at the time that

did not exist.

He considered the guarantees insufficient

However, Josep Borrell said on Twitter on Tuesday that

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressed her satisfaction on Tuesday after the release of 110 opponents, 50 of whom are considered

by the local NGO Foro Penal.

However, the United States, among the sixty countries which recognize Juan Guaido as interim president, believe that the pardons intervened on Monday are only a

gesture