Venezuela: Nicolás Maduro proposed to advance legislative elections

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced Saturday the call for holding a national consultation through "open Bolivarian councils" in order to propose the progress of legislative elections.

"Do you want early elections? We are going to elections!", Maduro harangued his supporters, while baduring that these elections could be convened by consensus with the opposition "in a dialogue".

"We are going to the parliamentary elections, I agree that the legislative power is relegitimist," he said in a mbadive act of Chavez in Caracas.

Parliament is the only power that the opposition controls in the oil country, after the overwhelming triumph obtained in the December 2015 elections, at the root of the current power struggle.

Guaidó rejected any possibility of engaging "a false dialogue" with the socialist government and warned that it would only agree to a "negotiation" to agree on the terms of a transfer of power and "free" elections.

Maduro ruled out holding presidential elections, saying they had just stood in May 2018, when he was re-elected in a boycott-led process by major opposition parties.

In addition, he announced the opening of a registration allowing any citizen to enlist as a militia and officially join the army.

"I call the militia and the militia who can afford it, especially the young people who register and join the ranks of the active soldiers of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (BNAF)," he said. said, quoted by the press agency Europa Press. .

Maduro's announcements took place at a rally on Bolivar Avenue on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Hugo Chávez's inauguration as Venezuelan president.

Maduro also claimed that the "coup d'etat failed" and called on leaders and opposition leaders to abandon the path of "Yankee interventionism," to be called "war" and "a military intervention".

"Stop supporting a coup that has already failed (…) we have won the peace, failed with the attempts against Venezuela, we have triumphed again," he said at the time. one of the two mobilizations of 2F.

I reaffirm your support for the initiative of Mexico, Uruguay and Caricom to launch steps towards a new process of dialogue with the opposition.

"I confirm my support for the dialogue, the day they want, how they want, I am ready to speak to facilitate the national meeting, to respect the Constitution and set an agenda of priorities," he said.

Maduro concluded the Chavez rally in Caracas by taking the oath of "bloody engagement of life" with his supporters to "defend the homeland, maintain the civil-military union and defeat imperialist interventionism" ".

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