Collision underway: Maduro

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Impel opposition of Venezuela project of referendum for president exit

Collision underway: Maduro

By: Carlos Damian                                             March 15, 2016

Chavez men and detracting summon to social mobilizations for president

Mexico. -  The table of the Democratic Unit (MUD, for their initials in Spanish), that groups to the lion's share of the group opposes to the Venezuelan government, announced (03/08/16) that will launch a campaign to depose to the president Nicolas Maduro. On the one hand it will impel the accomplishment of a referendum abrogative of mandate and will attempt to obtain we approval of a constitutional reform  "to reduce the presidential mandate and to achieve elections this year"; on the other hand, according to declares Jesus Torrealba (JT), general secretary of the MUD, the oppose leadership took "the unanimous decision of summoning to the people to certify  the popular pressure movement largest than may have existed to activate all, the change mechanisms". Outlined in those terms, we exhort it that against Chavez men constitutes a virtual called to overthrow to the mandatory and not solely to seek their separation of the charge by the parliamentary route. Even though it is certain that the electoral of the past December 6th permitted the opposition be made with most of the Legislative assembly for the first time in 17 years of government chavista. This wisdom does not mean that has the road opened to carry out a presidential modification guided to shorten the presidential mandate, neither that achieve the accomplishment of the referendum abrogative; the government has the possibility of appealing to the Supreme Justice court, more related to the executive than to the Legislative, to stop the institutional movements that intend carry out the opposes.  The Venezuelan opposition announced this Tuesday (03/08/16), that will impel a referendum abrogative and a constitutional amendment to expel of the power before end of year to the Maduro president, simultaneously with a great popular mobilization that demand his resign, since accuses their government of carrying to the country to a socio-economic crisis without preceding. Two months after assuming the control of the National Assembly for the first time in 17 years chavista hegemony, table of the Democratic Unit announced their  "unanimous decision" of summoning to the " popular pressure movement largest than may have existed" to activate "all the change mechanisms", to say of their general secretary JT. He considered that the strategy seeks "to reach a political solution, electoral constitutional and peaceful", before the aggravating of the economic and social situation of the oil country. "This no longer it is endured, we are victims of the worse crisis of the history of the country, nothing operates. Therefore Venezuela assumed the road of the change", asserted.  The mobilization summoned by the opposition will begin the next Saturday, informed JT." The activated street is what is going to serve so that those constitutional changes are given. We do not want hoods, neither a stone, what we want is a peaceful mobilization of the people", added. But beforehand, the government also it has called to their militant to the streets. The chavismo (Chavez political line) will give "the battles that outline to them the blind opposition by deposing it" and discards a resignation of the Maduro president, declared the leader of the legislative block officialism Hector Rodriguez. "During all the eras of this revolution the opposition has said: coup d'état, veto already, resignation, referendum. It is not nothing new", it underlined. Vladimir Padrino, Venezuelan Defense minister, repudiated the recent decision of the American president, Barack Obama, of extending by a year the declaration of “national emergency" on Venezuela by the supposed violation of human rights and persecution to directing opposes, whose decision qualified as "vile maneuver interferences". As far as it is concerned, the chavismo made to know. For route of the chief of the minority officialism in the Assembly, Hector Rodriguez, that will resist the attempts by drawing to Maduro from the Palace de Miraflores and will give battles, in the "areas that is required. The currency is in the air and none of the stages can be given by discarded. Regrettably, the most probable is that of acutely way of the political polarization in Venezuela, either in the institutional area or in that of the street confrontations. It is clear that the opposes have calculated that in the current moments a call to take the streets can have due to sufficient fuel get deeper with respect to shortage, and to it decontrol inflation. The chavismo, in so much, it knows that their last defense line is the call to the mobilization of their hard bases. The combination of both calculations would empty in similar or worse violence situations to those which occurred in the first months of 2014, and let balance of 42 dead, between officialdom, opposes and integrating of the public force, almost middle thousands of injured and about thousand 800 arrested. With these precedents, the worst that would be able to do both decrees would be ended of cutting the bridges of the institutional dialogue. It is required, on the contrary, that the two parts make collection of political will and begin to seek an alternative to the confrontation that, for the time being seems be the only one horizon of the Venezuelan crisis.  Referendum for Maduro The Venezuelan opposition achieved on Thursday the partial approval in the National Assembly, where has majority, of a project of law of referendum, one of the constitutional mechanisms with those which seeks the anticipated exit of the power of the Maduro president. The initiative was rejected by the petit committee official. After be endorsed in a first discussion, the initiative will be submitted in the next days to a second discussion for their final approval. The right-wing opposition indicated that in addition to referendum abrogative will impel the constitutional amendment and the resignation mechanism. "All of us yes imports us that the country not explode and therefore we plant the law of the referendum so that this year could come the peaceful and constitutional conclusion and there is not a social snap that nobody wants", asserted the oppose deputy Juan Michael Matheus during the discussion.  The officialism accused the opposition of promoting a "coup d'état". The deputy chavista Hector Rodriguez accused their adversary of making the "ridiculous political" by impelling several mechanisms to cease to the government of Maduro and supported that the laws that promote are "of back to the interest of the Venezuelans". The project of law establishes a three month and a half term to summon, to transact and to accomplish referendum, between other aspects. The new normative will regulate the popular conferences on the mandates repeal, the amendments approval of the constitutional text and of laws, and the derogation or procedures suspension. In other ideas order, the general district attorney's office of Venezuela informed have identified to 16 of 28 mining disappeared March 4th in the Bolivar State, after accomplishing interviews with familiar and witnesses. Soldiers were sent to the Tumeremo Zone to support the miners search. (La Jornada, mundo, p.p. 19-20, March 11, 2016).