EU: Maduro 'lacks any democratic legitimacy' due to lack of election result verification

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stated that the country's authorities "have not respected" the will of the Venezuelan people.

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00:00Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday for a new term, despite opposition

00:08claims that there is no clear evidence that he won the elections last July.

00:14Maduro intends to add six more years to his term in office.

00:18The Venezuelan opposition, led by Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, openly

00:24calls Maduro's clinging on to power a coup d'etat, but they were not the only ones to

00:30oppose the ceremony.

00:32The European Union has condemned the situation in Venezuela and insists that the election

00:38results remain unverified.

00:41According to the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kalas, Maduro lacks the legitimacy of a democratically

00:48elected president.

00:49While the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Mezzola, even argues that Maduro should

00:55be facing justice, not taking an illegitimate oath.