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Added:8. Urges the Venezuelan regime to immediately stop the persecution of the primary winner and thus fully legitimate candidate of the opposition to the regime, María Corina Machado, and other opposition politicians, and start implementing the Barbados Agreement, including by upholding the electoral roadmap’s principles and paragraph one of the agreement, under which the parties are bound to ‘recognise and respect the right of each political actor to choose their candidate for the presidential elections freely’, which would entail ensuring that the leader of the opposition to the regime, María Corina Machado, can participate freely in a competitive and truly democratic presidential election in 2024;

Added:9. Recalls the appalling social, economic and humanitarian conditions that have prevailed in Venezuela for years, which Venezuelans have been enduring for too long; condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the killing, constant repression, systematic torture and violations of human, civil and political rights of the Venezuelan people and human rights defenders; urges the Venezuelan regime to immediately stop persecuting, repressing and violating the civil and political rights of its political opponents and the Venezuelan people, as well as to revoke the arrest warrants for political opponents and to free political prisoners;

Added:10. Condemns the abuse of the legal framework to restrict the defence of human rights and freedom of association, and is particularly concerned about the draft law on the control, regularisation, operations and financing of non-governmental and related organisations;

Added:11. Notes the importance of allowing all Venezuelans, both in Venezuela and abroad, to participate in the elections by updating the permanent electoral registry and the electoral registry abroad, as provided for in paragraph 3(2)(e) of the Barbados Agreement;

12. Strongly condemns the interference in the designation of the members of the CNE and calls for an independent nomination procedure for new CNE appointments;

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Removed:5. Expresses its deepest concern about the potential negative effects of the Bolivarian Fury plan on civil liberties and the possibility of having free and fair elections;

Added:13. Fully supports the International Criminal Court and UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission investigations 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;

Removed:6. Stresses the need to ensure free and fair elections through the full implementation of the 23 recommendations made by the last EU EOM, particularly those regarding the abolition of the comptroller general’s prerogative to strip citizens of their political rights through an administrative procedure, the integrity and secrecy of the electronic voting system, the use of state resources in electoral campaigns, the conditions to ensure balanced media coverage of electoral campaigns, especially in state media, and the promotion of freedom of expression through the repeal of the Law against Hatred; demands that the Venezuelan authorities approve an EU EOM for the coming presidential elections;

Added:14. Remains strongly committed to supporting dialogue between the parties and to the Venezuelan people’s aspirations for a democratic future; calls for the EU to work with the international community and all peaceful democratic stakeholders across the political spectrum in Venezuela and to leverage all mechanisms at its disposal to encourage a return to the principles in the Barbados Agreement;

Removed:7. Condemns in the strongest terms the numerous killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, instances of torture and any other criminal actions against opponents of the Maduro regime, including politicians, journalists and human right defenders, among many others;

Added:15. Urges the Member States to maintain the sanctions imposed on the Maduro regime; insists that sanctions should be stepped up until there is a clear and permanent commitment, in line with the Barbados Agreement, to uphold basic democratic standards, the rule of law and human rights; calls for further targeted sanctions through the EU global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act) against the judges of the Supreme Court of Venezuela who were involved in attempts to ban María Corina Machado from holding public office and against the members of the Venezuelan security forces involved in the systematic abuses perpetrated against government opponents;

Removed:8. Deplores the continuous repression by the Venezuelan regime against political opposition figures and civil society; reiterates its firm and unconditional support for the Venezuelan people;

Added:16. Calls on the European External Action Service, the EU Delegation in Venezuela, the Member States and the international community to continue monitoring the situation in the country and to play a more assertive and visible role;

Removed:9. Deplores Venezuela’s alignment with Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua and other dictatorial regimes;

Added:17. Insists that the EU must not consider sending any electoral observation mission to Venezuela until there are clear and credible guarantees that the Barbados Agreement and the electoral roadmap are being respected in their entirety, until opposition politicians who have been disqualified from holding public office are reinstated, until María Corina Machado is allowed to participate in the elections, and until the EU EOM’s 2021 recommendations are properly implemented;

Removed:10. Calls on the Member States, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR), the United States and international human rights organisations to closely monitor the repressive actions of the Venezuelan regime against the political opposition and civil society in Venezuela;

Added:18. Stresses that the elections and the election results will not be recognised if these conditions are not met;

Removed:11. Calls on the Member States and the VP/HR to impose the necessary sanctions against those individuals from the Venezuelan regime and its proxies responsible for violations of human rights against the Venezuelan people;

Added:19. 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 Venezuelan regime authorities.

Removed:12. Fully supports the ICC investigations into the Venezuelan regime’s extensive crimes and acts of repression and calls for the EU to support the investigations into the alleged crimes against humanity in the country in order to hold those responsible to account;

Removed:13. 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 governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Organization of American States, the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Venezuelan authorities.