President Nicolás Maduro assumed his third term in front of more than a hundred delegations from around the world and a crowd that gathered outside the Legislative Palace in the city of Caracas.
During the swearing-in ceremony, corresponding to the mandate of the 2025-2031 term, President Maduro highlighted his commitment to absolute loyalty to the legacy, to the sowing and to the struggle of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez Frías:
“On me have been placed the symbolic elements that the law mandates, which invest me with power and authority. I have sworn before Commander Chavez absolute loyalty to his legacy, to his struggle, to his dream, to that man who achieved the historic feat of bringing to this century the original project and dreams of the liberators who drove the Spanish Empire from all of South America.”
In his first speech as head of State until 2031, Nicolás Maduro recalled his inauguration ceremony after the death of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution: “We came devastated, with our souls shattered from having said goodbye from this life to the immortal, the undefeated, the beloved Commander Hugo Chavez, always present in our lives. The sash that was placed on me was his sash, because I swore before him absolute loyalty to his legacy, to his sowing, to his struggle, to his dreams,” he stressed.
The head of State reiterated that the same dreams for which the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is fighting today were the same as those of the founding fathers. He stressed that “Hugo Chavez made the historic feat of bringing to the 21st century the ideas, the project and the original dreams of the original men and women who on horseback drove the Spanish empire from all South American lands.”
President Maduro also stressed the struggles and participation of the People’s Power. Upon receiving the presidential sash, made by the representatives of the 22 parishes of the capital, he expressed feeling the weight of the commitment and appreciated that the people themselves made their sash.
He affirmed that the power granted by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela “has not been given to me by a foreign government, nor by the Government of the United States, nor by the extreme right wing; the power that I have belongs to, and I owe it to the people.” In that order of ideas, he noted that in this swearing-in he is more aware, “that I have only one chief: that force of the working people, women, youth, boys, girls, that of the Liberator Simon Bolivar.”
