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Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 January 2026

Debate

Venezuela

Contribution

The Prime Minister has an excellent relationship with President Trump, and sometimes that involves challenge and sometimes it does not; that is how relationships work. On the transition to democracy, the frustrating thing is that Venezuela has the capacity, mechanisms and structures to hold a ballot in a way that is verifiable. The problem was that it did not count ballots properly or publish the results. This is not a situation where there is no infrastructure on which to hold a democratic process; that does exist. How exactly we support that, the timing of it and who leads it—all those questions— I cannot answer as of today, but they are the right questions and they will need to be answered to move forward to the proper democracy that we all want to see.

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