Before the vote, Guaidó assured that the interim is “a tool” that opponents have defended “at the risk” of their own lives and freedom, and that it continues to be “the political strategy” to achieve free elections and non-recognition Nicolás Maduro as president.
A total of 72 former deputies of the 112 who supported the self-proclamation of Juan Guaido as president in charge of Venezuela in 2019 they voted this Thursday for the elimination of this government.
This occurred during a virtual meeting, in favor of the removal of the call “interim government” headed by the ex-deputy. This is a decision that must be ratified in another session to materialize.
Some 104 parliamentarians elected in 2015, whose term expired in January 2021, met to decide on the elimination of the “interim presidency” or its continuity for another year.
After this it was agreed to take a second discussion -on a date yet to be defined- the project presented this Wednesday that proposes to end the interim.
The approach of Guaido, who defended the usefulness and work of the “interim government” He was supported by 23 former deputies.
All of them spoke out in rejection of the elimination of this figure and branded the intention of the anti-Chavista majority as a “parliamentary coup”.
Parties of Venezuela and Juan Guaidó
For their part, the members of the four political parties that voted once morest Guaidó hope to reach a consensus in the second discussion of this project. On the other hand, they seek “drive is not fragmented” from this decision.
Nine opponents, some independent and others from the parties Citizen Meeting, Venezuela Project and Nuvipa, They abstained from the vote.
In addition to this, they proposed declaring themselves in “permanent session” until producing “a joint agreement” but the idea was not validated by the bulk of the former parliamentarians.
The so-called interim government, without real power within Venezuela, has the recognition of the United States and a small group of countries, which has allowed it to control some public resources abroad.
I am on the side of the Venezuelans and the Constitution.
For this reason, today in the first discussion of the reform of the Statute Law, I supported the proposal that I published this week and that was presented by the deputy @SergioVergaraG: extend the AN-2015 and the Government in Charge for one year.
— Juan Guaidó (@jguaido) December 22, 2022
