Galaxia2002
Dagobah Resident
Hi, I want to make some clarifications about this article published in Sott:
Has Maduro really dissolved the National Assembly in Venezuela?
For me the article is tendentious because it seems to omit some facts that can help to arrive to a more objective conclusion. At this moment the supreme court reversed the articles that removed the competency of the national congress (surely by a inner faction against it and inner and foreign pressure over the government), but the damage is already done. This was so, because yesterday, the General prosecutor of the Nation, which is a Chavez follower said "These judgments (of the court) show several violations of the constitutional order and ignorance of the model of state enshrined in our Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which constitutes a rupture of the Constitutional Order " which is something nobody expect from her, being that she has been silent about other aberrations. So this article ease up something which is a serious fact, making it appears as a purely legal conflict. This was a plain auto coup d'etat intent. The decisions of the congress are not accepted (goods of bad for the nation) by any of the other power branches of the government since its installation, so virtually the congress doesn't exist, it is just now that was made a disguised official new .
This is really a political conflict using the malleability of law. I understand the background of this conflict which at higher levels have to do with imperialist domination, but this was really a bad move of the government, even more that few days ago the OEA (organization of American states ) accused Venezuela to be a dictatorship and threatened to remove it from the organization if the necessary votes are reached (with economical, political and military bad consequences for the country).
Some points:
The congress is in power of the opposition, that won with two thirds of the majority in December 2015 which gives big powers . To have less that 2/3 made the party's negotiate, so just before the new congress was installed, the former pro-government congress chose (violating the procedure) some judges (that do not meet the requirements, and some of the are even losers candidates for the new congress) for the constitutional court of the supreme court. This new ones illegitimate judges opened a case accusing 3 opposition deputies of the Amazon state of having won by cheating. In this way they cut the 2/3 and short the power of the opposition and force it to made negotiated decisions. Until the moment they can't prove those deputies made cheating. So this is a make up case.
It was supposed that the court had to made an investigation and order to celebrate a new election for those 3 deputies. You can't leave an entire state of the country without representation in the parliament, but they don't move a finger for do that because if they repeat the election in that state, are going to loose again and the opposition will recover his 2/3 majority. In fact they said that the investigation corresponds to the electoral national council which also didn't do anything to solve the conflict and a year has passed since that. The article said the the conflict is in hands of the opposition but the opposition do removed the 3 deputies on January 13. (_http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/01/160113_venezuela_mayoria_oposicion_asamblea_dp) and that didn't stop the conflict. So the opposition incorporated again those deputies and finally remove them again after conversations with the government, but nothing change.
So this is not an issue that is on the hands of the opposition but the government principally. I understand that maduro don't want to restore the power of a congress that is against him, but maduro needs to understand that the congress has a lot of legitimacy, even more than the supreme court that is chosen by the Congress in a secondary way. It is also worth to mention that all the votings has been suspended in the nation since a year by legal tricks: a constitutional referendum to remove maduro, which complied with all the requirements of the law, and which Chavez submitted also in the past, elections of governors, majors, elections in labor unions, etc. So this is near a dictatorship. Even Maduro said: " "When there are elections, that the CNE convoke them, I do not know when, in what year (my note: Why if there is an electoral schedule well established?), when we get back to the electoral field, we must be assured the victory with political force, with popular force, with the millimeter organization of the new Stage. "(http://www.laizquierdadiario.com.ve/Maduro-alude-a-indefinicion-convocatoria-a-elecciones?id_rubrique=5442). This is, there is no more elections while maduro and chavism lose them.
This is really bad for any progressive government that wants to reach power in any country in L.A, this bad experience will be used over and over again as example of what happens if you allow a progressive government reach power, sadly. Tomorrow will be President election in Ecuador, let's see what happens.
Has Maduro really dissolved the National Assembly in Venezuela?
For me the article is tendentious because it seems to omit some facts that can help to arrive to a more objective conclusion. At this moment the supreme court reversed the articles that removed the competency of the national congress (surely by a inner faction against it and inner and foreign pressure over the government), but the damage is already done. This was so, because yesterday, the General prosecutor of the Nation, which is a Chavez follower said "These judgments (of the court) show several violations of the constitutional order and ignorance of the model of state enshrined in our Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which constitutes a rupture of the Constitutional Order " which is something nobody expect from her, being that she has been silent about other aberrations. So this article ease up something which is a serious fact, making it appears as a purely legal conflict. This was a plain auto coup d'etat intent. The decisions of the congress are not accepted (goods of bad for the nation) by any of the other power branches of the government since its installation, so virtually the congress doesn't exist, it is just now that was made a disguised official new .
This is really a political conflict using the malleability of law. I understand the background of this conflict which at higher levels have to do with imperialist domination, but this was really a bad move of the government, even more that few days ago the OEA (organization of American states ) accused Venezuela to be a dictatorship and threatened to remove it from the organization if the necessary votes are reached (with economical, political and military bad consequences for the country).
Some points:
The congress is in power of the opposition, that won with two thirds of the majority in December 2015 which gives big powers . To have less that 2/3 made the party's negotiate, so just before the new congress was installed, the former pro-government congress chose (violating the procedure) some judges (that do not meet the requirements, and some of the are even losers candidates for the new congress) for the constitutional court of the supreme court. This new ones illegitimate judges opened a case accusing 3 opposition deputies of the Amazon state of having won by cheating. In this way they cut the 2/3 and short the power of the opposition and force it to made negotiated decisions. Until the moment they can't prove those deputies made cheating. So this is a make up case.
It was supposed that the court had to made an investigation and order to celebrate a new election for those 3 deputies. You can't leave an entire state of the country without representation in the parliament, but they don't move a finger for do that because if they repeat the election in that state, are going to loose again and the opposition will recover his 2/3 majority. In fact they said that the investigation corresponds to the electoral national council which also didn't do anything to solve the conflict and a year has passed since that. The article said the the conflict is in hands of the opposition but the opposition do removed the 3 deputies on January 13. (_http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/01/160113_venezuela_mayoria_oposicion_asamblea_dp) and that didn't stop the conflict. So the opposition incorporated again those deputies and finally remove them again after conversations with the government, but nothing change.
So this is not an issue that is on the hands of the opposition but the government principally. I understand that maduro don't want to restore the power of a congress that is against him, but maduro needs to understand that the congress has a lot of legitimacy, even more than the supreme court that is chosen by the Congress in a secondary way. It is also worth to mention that all the votings has been suspended in the nation since a year by legal tricks: a constitutional referendum to remove maduro, which complied with all the requirements of the law, and which Chavez submitted also in the past, elections of governors, majors, elections in labor unions, etc. So this is near a dictatorship. Even Maduro said: " "When there are elections, that the CNE convoke them, I do not know when, in what year (my note: Why if there is an electoral schedule well established?), when we get back to the electoral field, we must be assured the victory with political force, with popular force, with the millimeter organization of the new Stage. "(http://www.laizquierdadiario.com.ve/Maduro-alude-a-indefinicion-convocatoria-a-elecciones?id_rubrique=5442). This is, there is no more elections while maduro and chavism lose them.
This is really bad for any progressive government that wants to reach power in any country in L.A, this bad experience will be used over and over again as example of what happens if you allow a progressive government reach power, sadly. Tomorrow will be President election in Ecuador, let's see what happens.