Diosdado Cabello warned that the Constituent Assembly of Chavista will grant immunity to deputies who supported the operation "Libertad"

The Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, which governs the country with absolute powers, is preparing to lift parliamentary immunity against opposition MPs who supported the failed military uprising on Tuesday, April 30, warned his president Sunday, Diosdado Cabello.

"The prosecutor's office opened its case, and all requests for parliamentary immunity, as it should, and (…) are submitted to the Constituent Assembly. of course we will raise our hands to soften parliamentary immunity to all who have actively participated in this act "said the number two Chavismo.

On Tuesday, some 30 soldiers carried out an uprising against the dictator Nicolás Maduro in the vicinity of the air base of La Carlota in Caracas. supported by the opposition Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries.

Several members of the National Assembly, Venezuela's only body in power of the opposition, supported Guaidó, president of this power, who considered the uprising as the beginning of the so-called "Operation Libertad" with which he seeks to shield Maduro from power.

The Constituent Assembly deprived Guaidó of his parliamentary immunity on April 2 and allowed the highest court to prosecute him to usurp the functions of Maduro.

Guaidó was proclaimed interim president on January 23, after the parliament, with a majority of the opposition, declared Maduro "usurper" for having started a second term on the 10th of the month, which, in his opinion, resulted from "fraudulent" elections. .

"Justice will come, do not doubt it (…) do not despair "Cabello said at an event with members of the ruling party (PSUV) in Caracas.

After the failure of the uprising, denounced by Maduro as a "coup d'etat", Some 25 soldiers took refuge in the embbadies, as well as the opposition Léopoldo López, who was accompanying Guaidó that day, after being released by rebels in uniform.

Lopez, who has a arrest warrant, acts as a guest at the Embbady of Spain.

"The participation of some is made public, well known and communicative"said Cabello referring to deputies.

The Venezuelan prosecutor's office has requested 18 warrants for civilians and soldiers involved in the insurgency, prosecutor Tarek William Saab said on Friday.