The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asserted that Commander Hugo Chávez “democratized life”, once he came to power in 1999, calling for the originary power for the formation of a Constituent Assembly that was dedicated to the drafting of a new Constitution.
He said that in his first year of government, “He demonstrated the deeply humanistic concept, the democratic concept and the faith in the power of the people; it was Chávez the great democratizer of the country’s political life”.
In his speech at the special session of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), for the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Magna Carta, he recalled that on December 15, 1999 “the hope of the birth of a new time was deployed on the streets, of the Republic, now Bolivarian”, through the approval, for the first time in the history of Venezuela, of a Constitution by an approving referendum.
He stressed that the original constitutional process, convened by Commander Hugo Chavez 20 years ago and which was reactivated in 2017, contains “a solid national, Bolivarian and revolutionary thought, and has the ability to renew itself from the root, from the shared experience, of the daily struggle, from the present challenges and from the vision of the future”.
In his speech, the head of state indicated that the members of the 1999 Constituent Assembly never imagined that two decades later the originary power would be formed again «alive and activated through a powerful National Constituent Assembly (ANC) like the one we have in Venezuela”.
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