Macron confirms France’s disagreement with the method of removing Maduro in Venezuela

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday during a cabinet meeting that his country “neither supports nor approves” the “method” used by the United States to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and transfer him to its territory, according to government spokeswoman Maude Bregon.

Macron said, “We defend international law and the freedom of peoples,” according to what spokeswoman Maud Bregon said in her press briefing.

At the same time, the president considered Maduro a “dictator” and that his departure was “good news for Venezuelans,” stressing that he “confiscated freedom from his people and took away the 2024 elections.”

He continued, according to the spokeswoman, “France supports popular sovereignty, and this popular sovereignty occurred in 2024” during presidential elections that were denounced by the opposition, and France and a large part of the international community considered that the winner was the opposition Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, even if Maduro announced his victory in it.

Macron believed that “if a transitional process occurs, the winner of the 2024 elections must play a pivotal role in it.”

The French President was subjected to criticism, especially from the left, for not denouncing Washington’s method of carrying out the operation against Maduro in his first reaction to it.

Macron called on Saturday for a peaceful transfer of power in Venezuela, saying that Venezuelans can only “rejoice” with the end of “Maduro’s dictatorship.”

“By confiscating power and trampling on basic freedoms, Nicolas Maduro has caused great damage to the dignity of his people,” he wrote on