A delegation of ruling SYRIZA met in Athens on Thursday with the Venezuelan embassy’s chargé d’affaires in Greece, with the leftist party’s secretary, former minister Panos Skourletis, with the latter later expressing the party’s “undivided support and solidarity to the legal president” of the South American country.
Skourletis referred to Nicolás Maduro by name as the president of the “Bolivarian Democracy of Venezuela”, amid a cascade of recognitions around the world, including the US and most of Caracas’ South American neighbors, of rival Juan Guaidó as the country’s president.
Initially scheduled as a ceremonial contact, the latest dramatic developments in the increasingly impoverished country lasted for one hour.
Greece’s SYRIZA is among the very few major parties in Europe that has a favorable view of Maduro and his “Chavista” government.
