President Miloš Zeman on Wednesday invited the self-proclaimed interim
president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, to visit the Czech Republic, and
congratulated the National Assembly leader on assuming the provisional
office.
The gesture, announced by the president’s spokesman, came two days after
the Czech government recognized Mr Guaidó as the legitimate leader of the
South American country until free and transparent elections are called.
President Zeman noting that this year is the 30th anniversary of the Velvet
Revolution and collapse of the communist regime in the former
Czechoslovakia, said in the invitation, “I hope that your transition to
democracy will succeed”.
Mr Guaidó took the presidential oath on January 23 after the National
Assembly failed to recognize the second term of incumbent Nicolás Madura,
who won re-election last year in a vote that international observers said
was clearly rigged.