Venezuelan Ambassador to the European Union Alejandro Fleming belittled a resolution the European Parliament endorsed on Thursday rejecting the Venezuelan government's decision not to renew a broadcast license for Caracas-based private television channel RCTV, and argued that "use" of the European Parliament has been attempted to "raid on Venezuela."

According to Fleming, only 43 European deputies voted the resolution, and most of them were rightists, as the leftwing was absolutely opposed to the motion.
 
The diplomat added that "many" of the rightwing deputies who filed the motion did not attend the plenary session, as they were ashamed of trying to involve the European Parliament in an affair "that pertains exclusively to a sovereign country." "This was not important not even for them. They were incapable of showing up."

He added that the European Commission attended the debate and forcefully stated that the RCTV issue pertained exclusively to Venezuela. Therefore, the European Commission refused to take a stance on this case.

Fleming told official television station VTV, leftwing deputies rejected the fact that their rightist counterparts made the European Parliament take part in an issue that is restricted to Venezuelan sovereignty.

In Fleming's view, the resolution the European Parliament passed Thursday in Strasburg is likely to entail "very serious" consequences for the European Parliament rather than Venezuela, because the mechanism of parliamentary urgency has been distorted.