«The opposition has the right to criticism and kicking, yes they do; what they can not do is to say: I obey a sentence whenever I like, and when I do not like it I do not obey it. No political system works that way. If you are a Democrat, if you respect the political system and the Constitution, you have to respect the rules of the game, if there are no rules of the game, there is no democratic channel to resolve the differences that have existed, that exist now and will continue to exist.
The statement was made by the head of the Parliamentary Bloc of the Homeland, Héctor Rodríguez, during a special interview in Radio Miraflores, where he reiterated that the National Assembly will remain in contempt until they assume and respect all decisions coming from the Supreme Court of Justice.
Rodríguez recalled the TSJ ruling of August 14, 2002, through which was ruled the dismissal of the cause against the military officers who, on April 11, 12 and 13, 2002 abducted President Hugo Chávez and appointed as provisional President to Pedro Carmona Estanga; a decision that, although it was not shared by the majority of the Venezuelans, Chavez called to comply.
«The unconstitutional behavior that the National Assembly has had during 2016 puts it in a situation of disowning the Constitution of the Republic, its political system, its powers and the decisions that emanate from those powers.»
The head of the Bloc of the Homeland said that since their arrival in the NA, in 2015, the opposition «believed that such victory gave them, just as in a dictatorship, the powers that were distributed in different powers, and they try to assume executive, judicial duties, and disown the functioning of the structure of power. This puts them in a situation of illegality and unconstitutionality. «