Post by scumbuster on May 15, 2016 6:37:46 GMT -5
Venezuelan Opposition Gathers in Caracas to Speed Up Recall Vote
CARACAS – Crowds of Venezuelan opposition members gathered on Saturday in Caracas to demand that electoral authorities act quickly to hold a recall referendum that might succeed in removing from office the president of Venezuela, the Chavista Nicolas Maduro.
The demonstration that began around 10:00 a.m. downtown in the Venezuelan capital was called two days ago by the MUD opposition alliance to pressure the National Electoral Council, or CNE, to comply with the established schedule for the recall referendum.
“There will be no solution to this Venezuelan drama without consulting the nation, without consulting the people, and that consultation is known as a recall referendum,” the executive secretary of the MUD, Jesus Torrealba, told reporters from the opposition crowd.
He said the opposition will organize constant demonstrations in the streets “where the government least expects us” until it gets the recall referendum.
This, the second opposition demonstration this week to demand a little more speed in approving the referendum, comes a day after Maduro declared a state of exception that gives him “sufficient power” to deal with any possible coup d’etat against him.
“Apparently Maduro realizes that the strategy of delaying the referendum is a strategy of those around him to get rid of him and seize power for themselves,” Torrealba said.
The law establishes that if the head of state is removed from his post during the last two years of his term in office, he will be substituted by his vice president, but if he is removed in the first half of his term, new elections must be held.
Which is why the opposition seeks to speed up the recall referendum so it is held this year, in the first half of Maduro’s term in office.
Meanwhile thousands of Chavistas marched again Saturday in Caracas in response to a government call to defend the “Bolivarian Revolution,” and as an answer to the opposition march.
The gathering called by the head of state and the principal Chavista leaders attracted thousands of representatives of social movements, workers and government sympathizers for a march through the downtown area to a plaza where President Nicolas Maduro will join them.
laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2412210&CategoryId=10717
CARACAS – Crowds of Venezuelan opposition members gathered on Saturday in Caracas to demand that electoral authorities act quickly to hold a recall referendum that might succeed in removing from office the president of Venezuela, the Chavista Nicolas Maduro.
The demonstration that began around 10:00 a.m. downtown in the Venezuelan capital was called two days ago by the MUD opposition alliance to pressure the National Electoral Council, or CNE, to comply with the established schedule for the recall referendum.
“There will be no solution to this Venezuelan drama without consulting the nation, without consulting the people, and that consultation is known as a recall referendum,” the executive secretary of the MUD, Jesus Torrealba, told reporters from the opposition crowd.
He said the opposition will organize constant demonstrations in the streets “where the government least expects us” until it gets the recall referendum.
This, the second opposition demonstration this week to demand a little more speed in approving the referendum, comes a day after Maduro declared a state of exception that gives him “sufficient power” to deal with any possible coup d’etat against him.
“Apparently Maduro realizes that the strategy of delaying the referendum is a strategy of those around him to get rid of him and seize power for themselves,” Torrealba said.
The law establishes that if the head of state is removed from his post during the last two years of his term in office, he will be substituted by his vice president, but if he is removed in the first half of his term, new elections must be held.
Which is why the opposition seeks to speed up the recall referendum so it is held this year, in the first half of Maduro’s term in office.
Meanwhile thousands of Chavistas marched again Saturday in Caracas in response to a government call to defend the “Bolivarian Revolution,” and as an answer to the opposition march.
The gathering called by the head of state and the principal Chavista leaders attracted thousands of representatives of social movements, workers and government sympathizers for a march through the downtown area to a plaza where President Nicolas Maduro will join them.
laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2412210&CategoryId=10717