The National Assembly of Venezuela created six parliamentary friendship groups with six countries, including Portugal. The groups aim to strengthen and consolidate relationships between nations.
The National Assembly of Venezuela announced the creation of parliamentary friendship groups with six countries, including Portugal and Guinea-Bissau.
The Venezuelan parliament established liaison groups for Egypt, Senegal, Jordan and Kazakhstan, all chaired by deputies from the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), it said in a statement.
The groups will work to strengthen and consolidate “diplomatic and cooperative” relations with those nations.stated the Assembly.
Parliament has already established friendship groups with Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Laos, Lebanon, East Timor, Kenya, Gambia, Malaysia and the African Union.
Venezuela, a country with a significant community of Portuguese and Portuguese descendants, held presidential elections on July 28, and the National Electoral Council awarded victory to the country’s current president, Nicolás Maduro, with just over 51% of the votes, while the opposition. affirms that its candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained almost 70% of the votes.
The Venezuelan opposition and many countries have reported electoral fraud and demanded that voting records be presented for independent verification.
The electoral results have been contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with, according to authorities, more than 2,400 detained, 27 dead and 192 injured.
The Caracas regime said that a coup d’état was underway, keeping thousands of police and soldiers on the streets to control the protesters, and asked the population to, anonymously and through the VenAPP application, denounce those who They promote protests.
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The Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal (FP) indicated that 1,953 people are detained for political reasons in Venezuela, the highest number recorded in the 21st century.
Among those detained, 1,711 are men, 242 women, 69 adolescents, among them 1,792 civilians and 161 military personnel, he added.
Source: Observadora
