President Biden is expected to meet with the leader of the Venezuelan opposition on Monday Edmundo Gonzalez at the White House ahead of the inauguration in Venezuela on Friday President Nicolas Maduro for his third term after theirs highly disputed en, a White House official told CBS News.

The United States and many European countries rejected Maduro’s claim to have won the election, which was upheld by Venezuela’s Supreme Court in August. In November, the US government recognized Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González as the newly elected president.

González’s visit to the White House is the first stop on an international tour of defiance against the Venezuelan inauguration and gathering international support. He has been living in exile in Spain since a Venezuelan judge issued an arrest warrant following July’s presidential election.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council declared Maduro the winner of the election a few hours after the polls closed. Electoral bodies did not provide a detailed number of votes, unlike previous presidential elections.

Ahead of the election, the United States struck a deal with the Maduro government that the U.S. would temporarily lift some sanctions on Venezuelan oil and gas in exchange for a commitment to free and fair elections.

The Maduro regime did not live up to its end of the deal and sanctions were reimposed. In September, the US sanctioned 180 Venezuelan officials for not accepting election results and human rights abuses, including killings, repression and mass detentions of protesters.