On Monday, the right wing majority of the National Assembly (AN) in contempt, during the first ordinary session of its second annual period, withdrew from the plenary to the three candidates by Amazonas state – who are imputed by the Judicial Power – as ordered by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) since January 2016.
With this act, the national right wing – which controls the AN by a majority – acknowledged the legal validity of the sentences of the highest court in the nation, which determined the Parliament is under a condition of nullity by contempt of its rulings.
However, this act also lacks legal validity, since it was carried out by a new executive board also elected under contempt, which therefore lacks legal validity. To overcome this condition, the NA must annul the act of swearing in the three candidates of Amazonas, and disembed them from the plenary through the current board of directors, which is the one chosen on January 5, 2016, before incurring contempt.
With the aim of approving an agreement of «declaration of abandonment of duty» by the Constitutional President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, the parliamentary right wing finally acknowledged – after almost a year of denial – to have acted outside the law, and decided to obey the sentence of the TSJ ordering the disengagement – by the current board of directors – of the three imputed candidates, pending the completion of investigations into allegations of fraud that weigh on their election in the parliamentary elections on December 6, 2015.
Although most of the opposition deputies voted in favor of the disincorporation, different right-wing political parties such as Voluntad Popular, Alianza Bravo Pueblo, Proyecto Venezuela and Avanzada Progresista, have expressed their discontent with this contradictory measure.
Last Thursday, the new – illegitimate – Chairman of the AN in contempt, Julio Borges, promised to reinforce the coup plotting agenda that the parliamentary right wing undertook in 2016, although in private meetings with the revolutionary bloc he rejected the coup plotting attitude of the outgoing head of the Parliament, Henry Ramos, as reported socialist deputy Héctor Rodríguez.
In his speech – much alike a candidate -, Borges indicated that the first action of his administration would be to resume «the declaration of abandonment of the duty by (the President of the Republic) Nicolás Maduro,» although President Maduro remains in full public and notorious exercise of his legitimate and constitutional duties.
Although the Constitution establishes that the resignation of the post can only be declared after five days of absence of the country by the President of the Republic, without prior notification to the Parliament – a failure in which President Maduro has not incurred – Borges and the national right wing insist on deceiving their followers with this – impossible to fulfill – promise, without any legal arguments to support it.