The head of Venezuelan legislation asks for help to take office

The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, said on Friday that he was ready to temporarily badume the presidency and to call elections. The opponent called for support from the armed forces, the population and the international community.

Guaidó, elected on January 5 at the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, also called to demonstrate against the Nicolás Maduro government on January 23, the date marking the end of the military dictatorship in 1958. [19659003] "It should be the Venezuelan people, the armed forces and the international community who will give us a clear mandate to take control of [a presidência]," Guaidó said during a speech in front of seats in front of the UN headquarters in Caracas [19659003] Reelected last year at the highly criticized elections, Maduro took office Thursday. The legitimacy of his second term was questioned by the Venezuelan opposition and by several foreign governments who did not recognize the outcome of the elections.

The majority of Venezuelan opposition did not participate in the elections, either because it considered them fraudulent or because its main leaders were imprisoned or imprisoned. unable to compete. Guaidó, 35, accused Maduro of having usurped the presidency and said that the National Assembly would support the Venezuelan Constitution to conquer the country, but stressed that

elected in 2015 with a majority of the opposition, the National Assembly has in practice not been able to perform its functions since 2016. The decisions of parliamentarians do not even become laws, they are it only. The Plenipotentiary Assembly installed by Maduro in 2017 and not recognized by foreign powers – is not in session.

Faced with this obstacle, Guaidó asked the Armed Forces and the international community to badist the parliamentarians in the exercise of and promised to continue working to end the usurpation and by free elections. During the speech, however, the opponent did not expressly declare that he was baduming the presidency of the country, as requested by some anti-Chavez sectors.

However, Guaidó's statements have caused confusion. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, congratulated the opposition for baduming the interim presidency of Venezuela.

Itamaraty supported Guaidó's intentions. "The Brazilian government welcomes the demonstration of the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, his willingness to badume the presidency of Venezuela constitutionally, due to the illegitimacy of the mandate of Nicolas Maduro on January 10 ", did he declare. ] After the statements, Maduro rejected the request for military intervention and declared that these actions constituted an attempt to destabilize his new government and were led by the same group that had promoted the protests of 2017 having killed more than 100 people .

As we work all the time, there are crazy spirits, improvised minds, immature spirits who are ahead of the opposition, seeing what to invent, desperate, "Maduro said, pointing out that he would continue to perform the duties for which he was elected.

Venezuela is going through a deep social, political and economic crisis, with inflation of nearly 1,700,000% per annum, lack of food and of drugs and the flight of 3 million inhabitants, the majority in Colombia and Brazil.Maduro accuses the United States, allied of American and Venezuelan businessmen, of conducting an "economic war" against their Government and Venezuela.