By Luis Manuel Aguana
In an editorial premonition of February 15,
2016, Analitica.com titled "A National Emergency Government is
Required" (see in Spanish https://www.analitica.com/opinion/se-requiere-un-gobierno-de-emergencia-nacional/). More than two years later, the editorial ended by saying: "If the government persists in the
sterile confrontation with the Assembly, which is also the majority of the
Venezuelan people, the outcome could be tragic and harmful for the country's
recovery and for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela". The
editorial showed the concern of all Venezuelans about the regime's decision to
ignore the will of the sovereign people expressed at the polls on 6D-2015, a
few days after the opposition was installed in the National Assembly.
And it was tragic and it still doesn't hit
bottom. The regime is still ignoring the will of the people. But the most
transcendental thing about that is that when we all talked about the need for a
transitional government, what was really required, given the degree of
destruction at the time, was an emergency government, as the editorial
suggested when comparing the destruction of Venezuela two years ago with Europe
at the end of World War II, including the Marshall Plan. If at that time this
National Emergency Government was justified, then there is no telling that it
is now a pressing need.
How are the two terms different and why should
we begin to call for such a National Emergency Government and not a
Transitional Government? In that as a result of the beginning of the dismissal
process for corruption crimes initiated by the legitimate TSJ against Nicolás
Maduro Moros, what is constitutionally established is that once the
illegitimate occupant of the Presidency of the Republic is deposed and replaced
by someone constitutionally valid (not including the current occupant of the
Vice Presidency of the Republic), the constitutional period must be concluded
and legitimate elections called.
But is that really what is most convenient for
the country in the current state of affairs where people are dying in hospitals
and starving on the streets? To call for an electoral process in a completely
inhospitable environment, with a country and a government bureaucracy kidnapped
by hunger through a food card? Some will say, “Well, by then we will have
changed to Maduro and those details would be corrected before the process”.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Only
if we consider that the Venezuelan electoral system is completely flawed and
distorted in favor of the regime and its party is it not possible to make even
the election of a beauty queen without the result being modified. And to begin
to technically and institutionally debug the entire system, an important period
of time is required that should begin with the debugging of the Electoral
Registry. The intervention of the CNE should be the first thing a National
Emergency Government has to undertake.
On the other hand, the appointment of a new
Government, which the National Assembly must assume in a capacity that they
cannot evade because it is part of their constitutional responsibilities,
requires a political agreement that is complex in itself. They are already late
because the mandate forcefully expressed on 16J-2017 was deliberately ignored,
with the express intention of negotiating with the regime in the Dominican
Republic. Now having had an exhortation from the legitimate Supreme Court
appointed by them to initiate the corresponding constitutional procedure, the
Assembly's Board of Directors decided once again to make the mistake of
ignoring the appointment of a new government. They'
re in time to change that.
Once Maduro's successor has been appointed,
that successor must form a government that, far from calling for an electoral
process, must undertake "the cyclopean task of correcting everything that
has led Venezuela to the worst crisis in its republican history", as the
aforementioned editorial indicated, without wasting a second of time. That is
why what Venezuela needs is a National Emergency Government, not one of
transition to call for elections. We're in an
emergency! But I go beyond that.
This National Emergency Government, in the
exercise of its powers, must have the obligation to consult Venezuelans about
their future, about the refoundation of the country. A country destroyed and in
need of a Marshall Plan, which the international community will surely provide
us with, must consider a thorough institutional reform that will begin after
the conclusion of this Emergency Government, which should be in place for at
least two years, while the enormous problems of the short term are resolved.
And this consultation is none other than that the people pronounce themselves
on a Constituent process of an Original character by popular initiative.
Unfortunately I have the feeling that no
official opposition party is seeing the problem in this way. They live on the
glories of the past. They think they're going back to the country of 1998 and
they're wrong. They believe that it will be enough to go through a transition
and elect a new government without changing the fundamental structures of the
country, in a sort of "take off yourself to put me on". And that is a
monumental mistake because the country must change for the better and secure
the future of the new generations. Hundreds of young people did not die in
these years to play the game of "gatopardism" of changing so that
everything remains the same. Here we will have to live with a kind of
"democratic Peronism" (if that is possible) that will remain after
this Chavez-Madurist debacle. And this new country will have to be designed and
built together with them so that there can be political stability, not
otherwise. That is why this call to the Constituent is in everyone's interest.
It is paradoxical that the frustrated Decree
No. 1 of the coup plotters of 4F-1992 contemplated a National Emergency
Government with the obligation to call for a Constituent process during its
development, as we are now suggesting (see in Spanish The decrees of 4F-1992, http://quintodia.net/los-decretos-del-4f/): "Article 4. These
legislative functions, assumed by decree by this highest public authority of
the Republic of Venezuela, will last as long as necessary until the next
Constituent Assembly, taking into account the fundamental political changes
that this historic court in national political life has brought about as a
result of the victorious action of the Civic-Military Movement, embodies them
in a new Constitution under the reference of which the country will be summoned
to speak freely for the constitution of all the fundamental public powers of
the Nation.”.
As you can see, never
before has the country been reunited with its own ghosts. Let us hope that this
time we will not make another mistake and that a National Emergency Government
in favor of all Venezuelans will be correctly understood, which will lead us
out of the crisis and to the refounding of the country.
Caracas, May 14,
2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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