Changes from resolution motion to resolution motion joint

Added1. Recognises Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate and democratically elected President of Venezuela; also recognises María Corina Machado as the leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela, since she was elected at the primaries of the Unitary Platform in 2023 with 92.35 % of the vote;

Added2. Urges the EU and its Member States to recognise Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate and democratically elected President of Venezuela;

Added3. Calls for the EU and its Member States to do their utmost to ensure that the legitimate and democratically elected president can take office on 10 January 2025, in accordance with the Venezuelan Constitution;

Added4. Strongly condemns and fully rejects the electoral fraud orchestrated by the regime-controlled CNE, which refused to make public the official result by publishing the tally sheet of each polling station, despite repeated calls from the international community; highlights that the Venezuelan regime has failed to respect the Barbados Agreement in relation to the presidential election, making the holding of a free and fair election impossible;

Added5. Notes that reports from international election observation missions clearly state that the Venezuelan presidential election of 28 July 2024 did not meet international standards of electoral integrity; reiterates that the regime-controlled CNE has failed to publish complete and independently verifiable electoral records (actas) from all the country’s polling stations;

Added6. Stresses, in particular, that the interim report of the UN Panel of Experts, which Venezuela’s regime-controlled CNE had invited to assess the overall conduct of the election within the framework of the Barbados Agreement, underscored that the results announced were not substantiated; recalls that the UN Panel of Experts reviewed a sample of the electoral records (actas) published by the opposition and confirmed that they exhibit all the security features of the original result protocols, which proves their reliability;

Added7. Reiterates that respecting the will of the Venezuelan people, as expressed in the election, remains the only way for Venezuela to restore democracy, allow for a peaceful and genuine transition and solve the current humanitarian and socio-economic crisis;

Added8. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the murders, harassment, violations and arrests that have been perpetrated against the democratic opposition to the regime, the Venezuelan people and civil society; calls for an end to the systematic pattern of human rights violations; demands the immediate and unconditional release of all politically and arbitrarily detained persons, including foreign and EU nationals, as well as that compensation be provided to them and their families, while restoring their full civil and political rights; demands that the Maduro regime cease its policy of repression and attacks on civil society and the opposition;

Added9. Fully supports the investigations of the ICC and the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission into the Venezuelan regime’s extensive crimes and acts of repression and calls for the EU to support the investigations currently being considered under the Rome Statute into the alleged crimes against humanity, in order to hold those responsible to account;

Added10. Calls on the UN Human Rights Council to adopt, at its 57th session (9 September to 9 October 2024), a resolution renewing the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela and the presence of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Venezuela; calls for the immediate return of the OHCHR to Venezuela and urges Venezuela to ensure that the necessary conditions are in place for the OHCHR to fully exercise its mandate;

Added11. Calls for the EU and its Member States to request an international arrest warrant for Nicolás Maduro for crimes against humanity, on the basis of all the grave violations of human rights he has committed;

Added12. Recalls that in May 2024, the EU lifted its sanctions against members of the CNE, as a gesture of goodwill; underlines that this action did not produce any positive effect; calls on the VP/HR and the Council to reinstate these sanctions against the members of the CNE; calls further for the sanctions on the regime to be prolonged and their scope extended in order to apply targeted sanctions through the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime against Nicolás Maduro and his inner circle, including Jorge Rodríguez, their families, and all those responsible for violations of human rights in the country;

Added13. Deplores the fact that none of the key recommendations from the final report of the EU Electoral Observation Mission on the 2021 elections have been implemented; condemns the decision by the CNE to revoke the invitation to the EU to deploy an election observation mission; further condemns the decision of the regime to impede the access of or expel international observers invited by the democratic opposition to the regime, Comando Nacional de Campaña Con VZLA, for election day;

Added14. Urges the regional players and the international community to put all the pressure they can on the Maduro regime and Maduro’s inner circle to accept the democratic will of the Venezuelan people, recognising Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate and democratically elected President of Venezuela; is convinced that if a peaceful transfer of power and the re-establishment of democracy does not occur on 10 January 2025, a renewed migratory exodus to other countries in the region will follow, similar to that which has led close to 8 million Venezuelans to flee the country in recent years;

Added15. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the EU-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit participants, the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, the Organization of American States, the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the authorities of the Venezuelan regime.