{"id":53114,"date":"2024-06-06T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53114"},"modified":"2024-06-06T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:28:34","slug":"brazil-calls-on-venezuelas-maduro-to-allow-election-observers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53114","title":{"rendered":"Brazil calls on Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro to allow election observers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday called for Venezuela to allow for a large presence ofinternational observers during the country&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections, where Nicolas Maduro is seeking a third term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The appeal to Maduro came days after Venezuela withdrew an invitation for European Union observers to attend the July 28 vote, accusing the bloc of<br \/>\n&#8220;interventionist practices&#8221; because of its sanctions against Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call between the two leaders, Lula reiterated to his Venezuelan counterpart &#8220;Brazil&#8217;s support to the Barbados agreement and highlighted the importance of having a large presence of international observers,&#8221; the Brazilian presidency said.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro&#8217;s government and the political opposition agreed in Barbados last year to hold a free and fair vote in 2024 with international observers present.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, the Supreme Court loyal to Maduro upheld a 15-year ban on opposition primary winner Maria Corina Machado on what are widely seen as trumped-up accusations, and arrested several other opposition leaders and activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday called for Venezuela to allow for a large presence ofinternational observers during the country&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections, where Nicolas Maduro is seeking a third term. The appeal to Maduro came days after Venezuela withdrew an invitation for European Union observers to attend the July 28 vote, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1687],"class_list":["post-53114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-brazil-calls-on-venezuelas-maduro-to-allow-election-observers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}