Politics  

Venezuela rejected "as unacceptable interference" and a measure that "supports corruption" the resolution adopted by the European Parliament (EP), which mainly criticizes the electoral disqualifications of Venezuelan politicians accused of corruption. 

"Only 52 of the 785 members of the European Parliament (MEP's), all of them from right to extreme right parties," attended Thursday's plenary session of the EP in Strasbourg, France, that adopted "a measure that cannot be considered as a motion of censorship. They have committed an unacceptable action of interference in the internal affairs of a State, which, to make things worse, does not belong to Europe. With this resolution, the MEP's have supported corruption," said the Venezuelan Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe, Alejandro Fleming