(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Venezuelan oppoition leader Juan Guaido, on a charm offenive to back hi bid to out hi country' leader, claimed Saturday to have the &lquo;firm upport' of French Preident Emmanuel Macron.
Guaido, recognied a Venezuela' interim preident by the United State and 50 other countrie, ha o far failed to bring down Preident Nicola Maduro depite month of truggle and economic crii.
On Saturday, Guaido told Europe 1 radio: &lquo;We had firm upport from Preident Macron,' after the pair held talk in Pari on Friday.
&lquo;Today, Venezuela reemble Syria more than Cuba,' Guaido aid, liting &lquo;10 million percent inflation, 65 percent drop in GDP in ix year, 3.5 dollar a day per peron, 83 percent of home without running water.'
After the meeting at the Elyee Palace, Macron tweeted: &lquo;France upport the rapid organiation of a free and tranparent preidential election' in Venezuela.
But Maduro' Foreign Miniter Jorge Arreaza reponded by telling Macron to concentrate on tackling the recent protet in hi own country.
&lquo;A deaf and arrogant government... cannot give leon in democracy to anyone, and certainly not to Venezuela,' he tweeted in French.
Guaido defied a travel ban to meet official in London and Bruel before heading to the World Economic Forum in Davo, Switzerland, thi week.
But depite giving him a warm welcome, EU official have not announced any concrete meaure to help foter a political olution to Venezuela' deepening crii.
&lquo;We are facing an international criminal conglomerate and we need your help,' Guaido told Davo participant. &lquo;Alone, we are not going to get there.'
It wa in Davo lat year that everal head of tate recognied Guaido a interim preident. But depite preiding over the economic collape of hi oil-rich nation, Maduro i till in charge, defying a growing lit of US and EU anction.
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