{"id":31749,"date":"2019-02-04T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31749"},"modified":"2019-02-04T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:24:23","slug":"european-nations-recognize-juan-guaido-as-venezuelas-interim-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31749","title":{"rendered":"European nations recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela&#8217;s interim president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Major European nations recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country&#8217;s interim president on Monday, calling on him to hold fresh elections.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The UK was first to make the announcement, which came after President Nicolas Maduro ignored a demand set by some EU nations last week to call new elections by the end of Sunday. Spain, France, Germany,  Austria, Denmark  and the Netherlands followed suit.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Nicolas Maduro has not called Presidential elections within 8 day limit we have set,&#8221; British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt tweeted on Monday. &#8220;So UK alongside European allies now recognises @jguaido as interim constitutional president until credible elections can be held. Let&#8217;s hope this takes us closer to ending humanitarian crisis.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Major European nations recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country&#8217;s interim president on Monday, calling on him to hold fresh elections.The UK was first to make the announcement, which came after President Nicolas Maduro ignored a demand set by some EU nations last week to call new elections by the end of Sunday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}