After being elected as President of the Republic for the period 2019-2025 in the elections of this Sunday, May 20, Nicolás Maduro will promote debate and dialogue with the intention of establishing an agreement for the recovery and growth of the national economy.
Throughout its electoral campaign, the candidate of the Ample Front of the Homeland indicated that the convocation contemplates the participation of social, cultural, political and economic sectors in order to establish mechanisms to protect the economy from the onslaught of the financial blockade, promoted by the United States Government and its allies.
“The great dialogue should serve to give Venezuela the opportunity to have a new beginning and to learn how to do things well and better in Revolution towards socialism”, he said at the closing ceremony in Caracas on Thursday.
In this scenario, international figures will have a role as mediators in order to facilitate political dialogue between all parties and go to a process of national reconciliation.
Maduro has been emphatic in insisting on the importance of renewing and improving government methods to meet the needs of the population and expand social inclusion policies.
“We already have experience in that and we can perfect the methods of street government, of direct, inclusive government, of the convening government, I would call it the government of national unity”, Maduro said.
For the 2019-2015 presidential period, the revolutionary leader will also focus his efforts on the battle in the economic field in favor of the Venezuelan people with the Plan of the Homeland as a guide, which was drafted by the people in popular assemblies. From these meetings, more than 30,000 proposals emerged that seek to make Venezuela “a great economic revolution for peace, prosperity and happiness of this people.”
Another of the actions that Maduro will reinvigorate is the fight against the mafias that affect the population and the development of a price system that is abided by economic sectors, and that allows the people to be protected from the actions of speculative groups.
With the support of more than 5,823,728 votes, the standard-bearer of the Ample Front of the Homeland won in the elections of this MAY-20, over candidate Henri Falcón, supported by the political organizations Avanzada Progresista (AP), Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and Copei; Javier Alejandro Bertucci, representative of the political party Esperanza por el Cambio; and Reinaldo Quijada, from the Popular Political Unity 89 party (UPP89).
Revolutionary trajectory:
Born on November 23, 1962, Nicolás Maduro began his working life at a young age. He was one of the drivers of the Metrobus system of the Caracas Metro (Subway) network, where he was formed as a union delegate and, in the same vein, he was the founder of the Caracas Metro Syndicate and founder and coordinator of the Bolivarian Workers Force.
He began to take his first steps in politics in the Socialist League, a leftist organization founded in 1973.
The 1980s and 1990s were decisive in his life. It was a time when the neoliberal system reigned, where the marks of misery and exclusion were the face in Venezuela. Faced with this reality marked his course: became a student leader and, in communities and neighborhoods of Caracas, began to feel the demands of the excluded.
In 1992, after the military patriotic rebellion of February 4, 1992, he became an activist, along with Cilia Flores, for the freedom of Hugo Chávez, leader of that feat against the existing political system.
In 1994 he became part of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement 200, of which he joined the National Directorate until 1997, year in which he enlisted, with the leadership of Chávez and with other revolutionaries, into the founding of the 5th Republic Movement (MVR) , with which the Socialist leader won the presidential elections in December 1998, giving birth to the Bolivarian Revolution.
Maduro was elected as deputy for the 1999 Constituent Assembly, in which the Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela was drafted. In 2000, he was elected as deputy to the National Assembly, a position for which he was re-elected in 2005. After that victory, he was appointed Chairman of the Parliament, a post he held until 2006, when he was appointed by President Chávez as Chancellor of the Republic.
Until 2013 he was in charge of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and from that year on he served as Executive Vice President. After the physical departure of Commander Chávez, he was elected as President of the Republic on April 14 with 7 million 587,579 votes.
