Post by scumbuster on May 14, 2016 7:21:18 GMT -5
In Face of Recall, Venezuela's Maduro Extends Emergency Power Decree
CARACAS -- Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro decreed a state of exception Friday night saying he would seek to renovate it until 2017, only days after the CNE electoral authority announced a schedule for the next step in a recall vote against him.
The decree's goal is to "prepare (for), denounce, neutralize and defeat the external, foreign aggression that has started against our country," Maduro said on live television.
The wording of the decree ( titled "State of Exception and of Economic Emergency") was confounding, at least as the President read it. Maduro had said he would announce the extension of a standing "economic emergency decree", which gives him additional powers. But he never gave a hint that he would seek to install an state of exception.
Maduro said that the Economic Emergency Decree includes “the necessary measures to safeguard sovereignty in any scenario that these people seek to use to attack us politically, militarily, diplomatically from abroad.”
Decrees need to appear in the government's newspaper of record, the Official Gazette, before they are considered law.
Maduro’s extension of the 60-day decree is his second, giving him 120 consecutive days of special legislative powers over an economy that continues to rapidly deteriorate.
RECALL
The CNE electoral authority said Thursday the recall can proceed to its next natural stage on June 2nd.
The declaration of an exception also sets up a potential confrontation with the opposition, which has announced a big, nationwide march for Saturday, the second such street demonstration this week.
The Opposition is pushing for the recall to take place as soon as possible but before the end of the year.
Maduro said during a television broadcast that the exception will last "this month of May, June and July and all of the extensions that we will constitutionally make during the year 2016 and surely for the year 2017."
Gatherings such as Saturday's are forbidden during a state of exception. This is the second state of exception in Maduro's troubled Presidency, which began in 2013 after a narrow, contested win. Last year he instituted a state of exception in border states with Colombia. That policy, which resulted in a still officially closed border with Colombia, was repulsed by Venezuelans and resulted in a veritable electoral rout in those states come the December 6th, 2015 legislative elections.
The National Assembly voted against the Emergency Decree and again against its extension -- as is their power and right according to the Constitution but the Supreme Court that was stacked by the government with loyalists over-ruled the National Assembly and ruled that the decree was Constitutional both times.
laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2412175&CategoryId=10717
CARACAS -- Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro decreed a state of exception Friday night saying he would seek to renovate it until 2017, only days after the CNE electoral authority announced a schedule for the next step in a recall vote against him.
The decree's goal is to "prepare (for), denounce, neutralize and defeat the external, foreign aggression that has started against our country," Maduro said on live television.
The wording of the decree ( titled "State of Exception and of Economic Emergency") was confounding, at least as the President read it. Maduro had said he would announce the extension of a standing "economic emergency decree", which gives him additional powers. But he never gave a hint that he would seek to install an state of exception.
Maduro said that the Economic Emergency Decree includes “the necessary measures to safeguard sovereignty in any scenario that these people seek to use to attack us politically, militarily, diplomatically from abroad.”
Decrees need to appear in the government's newspaper of record, the Official Gazette, before they are considered law.
Maduro’s extension of the 60-day decree is his second, giving him 120 consecutive days of special legislative powers over an economy that continues to rapidly deteriorate.
RECALL
The CNE electoral authority said Thursday the recall can proceed to its next natural stage on June 2nd.
The declaration of an exception also sets up a potential confrontation with the opposition, which has announced a big, nationwide march for Saturday, the second such street demonstration this week.
The Opposition is pushing for the recall to take place as soon as possible but before the end of the year.
Maduro said during a television broadcast that the exception will last "this month of May, June and July and all of the extensions that we will constitutionally make during the year 2016 and surely for the year 2017."
Gatherings such as Saturday's are forbidden during a state of exception. This is the second state of exception in Maduro's troubled Presidency, which began in 2013 after a narrow, contested win. Last year he instituted a state of exception in border states with Colombia. That policy, which resulted in a still officially closed border with Colombia, was repulsed by Venezuelans and resulted in a veritable electoral rout in those states come the December 6th, 2015 legislative elections.
The National Assembly voted against the Emergency Decree and again against its extension -- as is their power and right according to the Constitution but the Supreme Court that was stacked by the government with loyalists over-ruled the National Assembly and ruled that the decree was Constitutional both times.
laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2412175&CategoryId=10717