‘No democratic legitimacy’: EU rejects Maduro’s Venezuela election win claim

EU foreign policy head says members have given up hope of seeing voting tallies in disputed presidential election

The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said its members have given up hope of Nicolas Maduro producing evidence that he won Venezuela's election and will not accept his legitimacy as president-elect.

Addressing reporters after EU foreign ministers held a video call with Edmundo Gonzalez, the former diplomat widely believed to have beaten Maduro in the 28 July vote, Borrell announced: The European Council decided that Maduro has no democratic legitimacy as president."