By Luis Manuel Aguana
What part
of "no elections with an
unconstitutional constituent in function" did the official opposition
not understand? Instead, they embroiled Venezuela in a tiring discussion about
whether to vote or not. All the analysts, national and international, expressed
their opinion, putting the country in an endless dispute where the regime on
all sides wins. Since the discussion doesn't touch that unconstitutional
parapet, they don't even want people to go. They will say:"If the opponents
go, we steal the elections, or we take them like we did to Andrés Velásquez in
Bolívar, and if they don't go, we don't even have to do fraud".
The
substance of the discussion is still intact: the Rodriguez Constituent Assembly
is still standing and no one from the official opposition is proposing
anything. And why is that? Because the Dominican Republic's argument was based
on the regime granting concessions for electoral conditions that they would
never accept, as well as the dismantling of the illegitimate constituent,
precisely because that is the means in which they guarantee its stability.
Then they
ran out of "electoral" proposals, the regime calls for advanced
elections with those who want to go with them (that they have too much) so that
no agreement has been reached, leaving them only to demand electoral
conditions, something that could have been possible since before 2012, as many
of us asked for it from civil society and that they openly ignored, but now it
looks like a stupidity because there is a supraconstitutional power in office.
So what is the electoral solution? Is the discussion then to go to vote or not
to vote? What madness is this?
The
regime's plan is going from strength to strength and the question remains the
same: is there a different solution that does not involve continuing the
electoral game of the regime and its opposition? Well, there is, but this must
be done by dismantling the unconstitutional parapet that the regime was built
to remain in power. And that can only be done by the people in consultation as
provided for in the 1999 Constitution.
Tolerating
the regime's constituent appears to be the path chosen by those who still
defend going to elections with that constituent in office. Crass error. The
Constituent Assembly of Delcy Rodríguez has already attributed to itself the
legislative functions of the National Assembly, as well as the appointment of
officials who are constitutionally competent only to her, as in the case of the
Attorney General of the Republic.
What's
their route? Little by little, turn this National Constituent Assembly into a
"National Assembly of People's Power" in the image and likeness of
the Cuban one, whose powers are established in its constitution:"Art.
70. The National Assembly of People's Power is the only body with constituent
and legislative power in the Republic", merging both entities with
their constituent power acquired unconstitutionally. That Assembly operates on
a permanent basis and the Cuban Constitution grants it lifetime constituent
powers.
In a recent
conversation with a former Venezuelan minister who travelled to Cuba in the
exercise of his office, he indicated to me that his Cuban counterpart at the
time told him that the National Assembly of People's Power in his country was
the "guarantee of the revolution" and he had not understood why at
that time. After all that has happened in Venezuela, he now understands that
the intention is to give a life character to this unconstitutional Assembly,
with constituent powers to guarantee in the same way what they call "their
revolution". Well, it is this virus that has perverted the institutional
body of the country, which must be attacked first so that the body of the
Republic does not end up dying.
Once the
constitutional changes that are already being prepared have been made, the
National Assembly would disappear, taking up its functions this illegitimate
Constituent, remaining for life with constituent powers, even though they have
said that they would last two years. That's how it happens in Cuba. It is not
very difficult to project what would happen in Venezuela if that constituent
adjournment is not dismantled.
But what
our official opposition only thinks about is going to elections, not touching
the main threat to the institutionality of our country. And the most serious
thing is that in this they are backed by illustrious thinkers recognized by
all. I will not name them because you all know them and they have become
notorious in recent days for their interest in going to elections as a place,
some even proposing Lorenzo Mendoza as a candidate for "Unity".
To that
life constituent, which is what will end up coming out as a subsequent step in
the re-election of Maduro, we oppose a Popular Consultation as a proposal that
goes to the root of the problem, and a shot at the waterline of these
pretensions, since it is not possible to convoke any kind of electoral event in
the framework of an unconstitutional Constituent not summoned by the people,
and through which it is intended to perpetuate the current government. Any
pressure from the international community must be directed to the government
presided over by Nicolás Maduro to allow this consultation with all the
necessary electoral and international observation guarantees, and not to any
electoral event that maintains a supraconstitutional entity in office, in contravention
of the established constitutional order. It is for this reason that we believe
that a plebiscite is what corresponds to Venezuela as a democratic,
participatory, electoral and constitutional solution in opposition to any
electoral solution, even when conditions are required to participate.
In this
Plebiscite, the people of Venezuela would be consulted if they agreed to
dismantle the illegitimate Constituent Assembly and annul all its acts, thus
proceeding to the restitution of the right violated by the regime to consult
with the Venezuelan people on the convocation of a legitimate National
Constituent Assembly, with democratic and participative bases, and the
necessary designation, from their own bosom, of a transitional government that
would lead to the establishment of a democratic and participative base.
As you will
see there is an institutional solution on which to put pressure on the regime
of Nicolás Maduro that does not go through advance elections called in an
unconstitutional manner, presenting to the people of Venezuela and the
International Community, a peaceful, democratic, constitutional and electoral
alternative, which will overturn the pretensions of making this parapet of the
Rodriguez a Lifetime Constituent....
Caracas, February 12, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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