The plenary session of the Basque Parliament next June 22 is discussing an urgent motion submitted by the People's Party (PP) advocating "freedom of expression" and "pluralism in news media in Venezuela," following President Hugo Chávez government's refusal to renew the broadcast license for Caracas-based private television station RCTV, Europapress reported.

In a news release, PP said secretary-general of Basque PP Carmelo Barrio, in his motion is reminding that the European Parliament agreed that Chávez' decision is "depriving a part of the audience from access to plural information."

PP is also warning that "the attitude of Chávez' government openly violates freedom of expression."

The demanded the motion to be discussed urgently because "these serious facts require immediate reactions from democratic institutions worldwide rejecting such repression against freedom of expression."