BRUSSELS—Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó is a “privileged interlocutor” but no longer considered interim president, European Union states said in a statement on Jan. 25, sticking by their decision to downgrade his status.
The EU’s 27 states had said on Jan. 6 they could no longer legally recognize Guaidó as interim president after he lost his position as head of parliament following legislative elections in Venezuela in December, despite the EU not recognizing that vote.
