- Venezuela: Poisoned gift from Nicolás Maduro to Juan Guaidó after the agreement
Nicolás Maduro has launched the process to hold parliamentary elections under his absolute control before the end of the year. The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) has taken the first step by decreeing the "legislative omission" of the democratic Parliament with the aim of appointing a tailor-made National Electoral Council (CNE), for which it has collaborationist opposition groups. Another trap of Chavismo, without much surprise on this long-awaited occasion.
It matters little that this is not a constitutional attribution of the TSJ, the organ of the revolution that since 2015 has hit Parliament and the opposition with a hundred sentences against it, including that of "contempt" from the first days of its constitution. At this time, none of the important political groups of the Democratic Unit can participate in the elections , when their leaders are disabled or the parties are suspended. Among them Voluntad Popular, where Juan Guaidó is a member , whose dissolution process is advancing amid the pandemic.
"It is a new attempt to usurp the functions of the National Assembly (AN). These attacks will not silence or stop our fight," said deputy Miguel Pizarro from exile.
Chavismo's illegal maneuver was sung because under no circumstances would the government parliamentary group plus its various allies reach the 2/3 parts required to elect the new CNE. Behind is a string of maneuvers whose sole objective was to block the opposition in the National Assembly (AN), which did have 2/3 parts at the beginning. Not a single one of the laws passed for five years was implemented by the Maduro government.
"The farce of the Maduro TSJ declares a legislative omission in the designation of a CNE that Maduro himself sabotaged. Do you think that this is how they are going to solve the serious crisis that they have generated? You know this country is crap and this country is going to Show them that it is gold and it will be free, "protested Juan Pablo Guanipa , legitimate vice president of the AN.
The collaborationist parties that accompany Maduro have among their ranks the former presidential candidates Henri Falcón , former Chavista governor, and Javier Bertucci , an evangelical reverend close to power. All of them met with the revolutionary leaders around the so-called Dialogue Table (known as the Mesita in Caracas political circles), which even had the approval and participation of former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Russian Chancellor Sergei Lavrov .
"An electoral exit organized by the dictatorship is a bad joke. It is not admissible from any point of view," Luis Almagro , secretary general of the Organization of American States , firmly criticized .
The ruling of the TSJ also supposes a frozen bucket of water for all those who saw in the agreement reached between Guaidó and Maduro to combat the pandemic the beginning of a de-escalation policy.
"It was very clear what was going to happen, with recourse or without recourse, it is not a surprise. It is a very clear strategic line of the regime, a marked letter. The omission statement was going to be made by all of them. saw with a fairly independent CNE negotiations it was a tale. The regime is not going to release a piece as fundamental as the CNE. And what comes are appointments of four pro-government and one of the opposition (collaborationist). The government cannot risk Make inventions to satisfy the gallery. He must play his game closed. What comes next is more of the same, "explained the political scientist Luis Salamanca , former rector of the CNE.
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