By Luis Manuel Aguana
In an act that many Venezuelans
could consider as an open delay to discussion about the order received from the
legitimate Supreme Court to initiate the procedure to fill the power vacuum
left by the continuation of the trial of Nicolás Maduro Moros for corruption
and money laundering, the National Assembly Directive decided not to introduce
the item in the legislative agenda of Tuesday, July 10, 2018.
Not to mention what many of us think
about the outrageous collaborationism of some opposition deputies in the
National Assembly, I am just reminding the citizen deputies that every day that
goes by without solving Venezuela's political problem, Venezuelans die of
hunger and lack of medicine. But that does not seem to be the feeling of those
who must urgently take the decisions that correspond to them in order to
resolve the serious Venezuelan political crisis, despite having received
unprecedented support in votes from the population on December 6, 2015, which
is precisely what is dying of hunger and disease. I wish Congressman Omar
Barboza and the rest of the National Assembly Board would remember that before
continuing to put bureaucracy into the procedure to fill the power vacuum
according to the ruling of the legitimate Supreme Court.
In a step in the direction of
hindering the execution of the legitimate TSJ's decision, Barboza and the
National Assembly Directive sent the High Court's ruling to the Parliament's
Legal Consultancy to "analyze the ruling of the TSJ in exile" (see in
Spanish at http://versionfinal.com.ve/politica-dinero/barboza-propone-a-consultoria-juridica-del-parlamento-analizar-fallo-del-tsj-en-el-exilio/). Will it be to find ways to
disobey it? Because otherwise it would not be understandable that the decision
of a Supreme Court of Justice would not be complied with by those who are
ordered to do so, and instead they would "analyze the decision". Court
decisions are complied with, not analysed.
After
finally being notified via email, and even though the decision of the
legitimate Supreme Court was published a few days ago and all Venezuelans were
aware of it through social networks, "Barboza said that next Tuesday the
proposal will be evaluated so that a commission, made up of the parliamentary
leaders of the political parties, will present a report to take as a basis the
final decision. "Of course, taking into account the political reality that
caused these magistrates to flee the country, as well as the analysis we make
of the file that we do not yet know through the Constitution and the laws of
the country as the Legislative Power," Barboza said. (see in Spanish, AN
received notification from the TSJ in exile of Maduro's pre-trial hearing, at http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/asamblea-nacional/recibio-notificacion-del-tsj-exilio-sobre-antejuicio-maduro_230663).
In other words, it is from next
Tuesday, July 17, 2018, that we Venezuelans will begin to know what the
deputies of the National Assembly will do with the order of the legitimate
Supreme Court. If what is happening in Venezuela were not so serious, I would
think that they do not intend to solve it. But they are obliged to do so,
either by action or omission. And why omission? Because we Venezuelans can
understand why the deputy citizens do not want to solve it because of threats
from the regime to themselves or their families. They should, as I mentioned in
my previous note, leave it to the legitimate Supreme Court to resolve this
problem because it is clear that in Venezuela they do not wish to do so,
whether justifiably or not. In this way, they cease to be an obstacle to the
process continuing and a new government, which we have called a National
Emergency, is appointed (see complete request in Spanish at https://tinyurl.com/y7x87ldb).
The sad thing about this whole
picture is the painfully lost time. The Venezuelan no longer has time to
continue in this take and give me between the legitimate TSJ and the National
Assembly. The regime has already announced that they will begin the evaluation
for the recall of the deputies of the National Assembly through the
illegitimate National Constituent Assembly (see in Spanish, ANC evaluates the
recall of deputies of the Parliament, at http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gobierno/pedro-carreno-anc-evalua-revocatorio-diputados-del-parlamento_243202).
At the end of July, the deputies
will serve half their term and the regime will begin the process of removing
them from office with the CNE, do you think they will succeed? Of course they
will, and they will in record time. Tiby and his CNE will fabricate the votes
necessary to demolish Parliament into opposition hands. There will hardly be
any opposition deputies left who are not aligned with the regime. So again,
they either run or face.
Little by little, Venezuelans are
running out of local institutional solutions, while we all watch courageously
as the only legitimate institutions in the country are inexorably being
demolished. The National Assembly, the only internationally recognized
institution in the country, will fall into the hands of an illegal parapet, the
regime's National Constituent Assembly. By recovering or at least rendering the
National Assembly useless, the regime will have taken a decisive step towards
changing our Constitution from the illegitimate National Constituent Assembly.
And while time, which is a precious
and irrecoverable resource, is inexorably passing, our deputies are squandering
it by slowing down and bureaucratising the possible solutions that are being
considered for the appointment without further delay of a National Emergency
Governing Council.
The little remaining opposition life
span of the National Assembly should be dedicated to trying to change the
regime and return the country to a sustainable model. Otherwise, the young
people killed and the political prisoners in the protests since that National
Assembly was elected will have been useless. The siege is closing and nothing
significant has been done to change the regime from legitimate institutions
through constitutional mechanisms. It is time for that situation to change, and
to change immediately.
Whether it is the National Assembly
or the legitimate Supreme Court that has to designate who should fill the power
vacuum in Maduro's trial, the decision cannot be lost in a legal web that
involves weeks or months. That's got to last for days. That is why the regime
has always beaten us and we have always lost. I still remember those opposition
voices who told us that they rejected the Original Constituent from the hands
of the people because it would "last for years". Well, the regime did
it with its CNE in three months, from May 1, 2017 to July 30, 2017. Well?
Do you think this recall of deputies
will last long? It will last days after July 31st because the regime has
already decided with its Constituent Assembly to put an end to the opposition
Parliament. It would be worthwhile for the deputies to read point No. 8 of the
Exhortation of the Venezuelan Episcopate "Do not be afraid, I am with
you" Is 41, 10, dated July 11, 2018: "There
is an urgent need in Venezuela for a political leadership that places the
Venezuelan people at the center of its reflections and actions, that is aware
that beyond the control of power, politics is the office of those who, moved by
nobility and ethical principles, know how to place themselves at the service of
the citizens and not of petty interests. Opposition leaders must offer the
people alternatives for change, and work harder for their well-being” (see
in Spanish, Exhortation of the Venezuelan Episcopate at, http://www.cev.org.ve/index.php/noticias/309-exhortacion-del-episcopado-venezolano-no-temas-yo-estoy-contigo-is-41-10).
Deputies, if the
opposition is not able to move institutionally quickly with what it already has
to generate a legitimate body that can face the regime from exile over and
above our differences, such as a National Emergency Governing Council, the
deaths we already have just begun and possibly those who follow will be you…
Caracas, July 13,
2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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