ANC has born with full popular legitimacy

“The National Constituent Assembly has born with full popular legitimacy thanks to a people who won over the circumstances to establish a historical participation of more than 8 million wills”.

Thus was assured on Monday by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who added that it is the highest number of votes received by the Revolution in any electoral process.

Before a crowd that filled the Bolívar Square to celebrate the perfect victory of July 30, the Head of State asserted that the Constituent mechanism was born with the same legitimacy as the Constituent of 1999.

“Not only it has the national constituent force, but it has the force of legitmity, the moral force of a people who heroically, under war conditions, went out to vote, to say: We want peace, want tranquility”, he said.

The President emphasized that the Original Constituent Power will be “a space for dialogue and meeting of all Venezuelans, for honest people who wants peace, for sincere people”, he insisted, while calling for a national dialogue with all sectors of the country.

President Maduro celebrated what has been the biggest voting that has drawn the Bolivarian process in more than 18 years of Revolution

“The brave people have given a lesson of bravery, of courage. What we have seen today is admirable”, he added.

Faced with this unprecedented event, the National President thanked the National Electoral Council (CNE), the Bolivarian National Armed Forces along with the Republic Plan, as well as the tide of people who came to legitimize a destiny of dialogue and peace for the Homeland of Bolivar and Chavez.

Path to dialogue:

The Head of State revealed that a few days ago a delegation of the Bolivarian Government met with representatives of the opposition, with the aim of adding the dissident minority to the Constituent project, a proposal that the representatives of the right had rejected.

“I proposed to them, two weeks ago: Why don’t you sign up for the Constiuent? I was willing to postpone it 15 days in order for them to register, make campaign and then make free elections”, said the president. They asked for an hour, saying: “We’ll come soon”‘, and when they came back they said: “We do not accept”, he said.

Finally, President Maduro congratulated the constituents elected, who will now have the arduous task “to reconstruct what the fascist violence led by opposition sectors has distorted, with the aim of establishing the path of peace, of dialogue, of justice, and loyalty”.