“I tell Venezuelans that we are not going to leave them alone, you are not. Here is the National Assembly debating, settling their differences, but above all politically agreeing on something that is constitutional, which is that the National Parliament will remain, that it will continue to support Article 233, the dialogue with the world of course, the strengthening of this Assembly because that is the purpose,” this was the message that the President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, gave after it was voted the continuity of the National Assembly and the Presidency in Charge after the first discussion on the modification of the Statute of Transition.
By Centro de Comunicación Nacional
Dec 27, 2021
At the closing of the debate on the “First discussion of the Bill for the Partial Reform of the Statute that Governs the Transition to Democracy to Restore the Validity of the Constitution in Venezuela,” held this Monday, December 27th, the President of the legitimate AN said that “it cannot be weakened or much less go against the Constitution.”
He also stressed that the “clear duty” of the National Assembly is to “protect and safeguard the Constitution,” as is “to serve the Republic and the Venezuelans who want a response and who want to get out of this tragedy definitively.”
“There will be no power vacuum in Venezuela as a result of the absence of a legitimate election in 2018 as the result of the ‘absolute absence’ after having hijacked the vote in 2020 as crafted by Jorge Rodríguez, who today simply hijacks powers. I clearly tell Nicolás Maduro that the one who has an expiration date, even in his perverse logic, is him. Nicolás Maduro and Jorge Rodríguez were defeated in their attempt to divide this Parliament, in their attempt to weaken this Parliament ”.
Inescapable duty
In his speech, Guaidó reiterated that he will not stop fighting until a free and fair presidential election is held to end the crisis that is deepening every day in Venezuela and which, among other consequences, has generated the migration of six million Venezuelans.
“My duty as the President in Charge of Venezuela is to seek a free and fair presidential election, to take the powers away from a dictatorship that uses them to sustain itself every single day in power, which uses them to benefit an increasingly debased class. My duty is to be able to bring about that change in Venezuela. It is not easy to exercise a Presidency in Charge under a brutal dictatorship that has persecuted the deputies, the relatives of the deputies, and my family. We have accepted the risk because we are not going to leave Venezuelans alone, because the citizens who have resisted time and time again are not alone.”
He assured that it is time to correct the mistakes that have been made in recent years, but he also called again to strengthen democratic unity and to protect the deputies from the threats and persecution of the dictatorship. He also said that among those corrections is that of “reducing bureaucracy to make us agile at this time.”
He recalled that united in the fight is how the regime can be defeated “and that’s how it will be.”
“Thank you very much to the deputies who resist, to those who defend and protect the Constitution, to those who defend Venezuelans, to all those who we are going to give all our support and effort to finally get rid of Nicolás Maduro and this dictatorship in 2022 to through a free and fair presidential election. In dictatorship we embrace the Constitution, in dictatorship we embrace the possibility of a solution through a fair free election, the possibility of strengthening our dialogue with the world to provoke a comprehensive agreement that responds to Venezuelans. It is our duty to reunify and heal this country.”
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