The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, announced on Tuesday that he will present before the National Constituent Assembly the proposal to hold the election of the deputies to the National Assembly on April 22, a date scheduled for the presidential elections, given the absence of the Legislative Power.
During his participation in the “Dando y Dando-Radio” (Taking and Giving-Radio) program, broadcast by RNV Informative Channel’s signal, the also constituent pointed out that the proposal presented last January 23 before the plenary of the ANC, approved by consensus, “Was lacking something”.
“We do not have a legislative power. Legislative power does not exist here in Venezuela. It is a dinosaurs cave and now with its current president (Omar Barboza) it has entered the Jurassic period of politics. They generate absolutely nothing (…) ”
In conversation with Tania Díaz and Aristóbulo Istúriz, members of the national leadership of this political organization, he recalled that the presidential elections convened by the constituent power are a cry of the Venezuelan opposition itself that for so long demanded to advance the electoral consultation.
“I do not see any problem that we are able to organize for the same date of the presidential elections the elections to the National Assembly, so that the day that assumes the President of the Republic, also assumes the National Assembly; It is a commitment to take the country forward”.
For the constituent, who lashed again the position assumed by the opposition against the call to presidential elections, the opposition’s leadership deceived its people again. First, when they told their followers that it was not necessary to go to elections to oust Nicolás Maduro; then when they promised them, from the National Assembly, that in six months Maduro would be gone; and when they declared the abandonment of the office of President of the Republic, he recalled.
Finally, he pointed out that this proposal, which will be formalized in the coming days, represents an opportunity for small parties, regional organizations and the new leadership, who have been excluded from the election of the single opposition candidate: “It’s a possibility for democracy.”
