In a statement released on Tuesday 16 June, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, said that the recent decisions by the Venezuelan Supreme Court to appoint a new National Electoral Council (NEC) and suspend the opposition party Accion Democratica “reduce to a minimum” the democratic space in Venezuela and “create new obstacles” to resolving the political crisis in the country.
Speaking on behalf of the EU, he stressed that an NEC...