By Luis
Manuel Aguana
First of
all, I apologize for the headline, beginning with a word that is not
found in the DRAE (Dictionary of the Real Academia Española), but
that tries to explain itself: I would like to remove from the speech
and analysis the name and the executions of the protagonists of the
official opposition and especially that of the main one, Juan Guaidó.
Venezuelans always try to explain what happens to us, personalizing
the actions with the name of those who for any circumstance occupy
the most important political positions. And I think that is logical
because if there is something in Venezuela that is taken as very
personal, it is power. However, this custom leads us to confuse
gymnastics with magnesia. I will try to explain myself better.
Deputy Juan
Guaidó Márquez is President in Charge of the Republic because it
was he and not another who occupied the position of President of the
National Assembly at the time of declaring the absence of the
President-Elect of the Republic according to Article 233 of the
Constitution. And he still occupies both positions due to an act of
political prestidigitation -which I consider unconstitutional-
through an Agreement for the Transition that the National Assembly
formulated at the time. If the Negro Encarnación, the famous
doorkeeper of Acción Democrática, had been there, he would have
been the President in Charge of the Republic. And although I
personally consider that perhaps the Negro would have done better, I
must accept (we will see later if the verb is the most appropriate)
that Venezuelans have A LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT who has a responsibility
to fulfill before us, regardless of who he is called or who he is.
That is, we must separate the variable from the content of the
variable.
We
Venezuelans have been wrong in the past to elect the President. The
last valid opportunity we had was wasted when we elected coup plotter
Hugo Chávez Frías in 1998. We have paid for that mistake and we
continue to pay dearly, but there is no doubt that the mechanism,
procedure and forms provided for in the Constitution of that time
were fully complied with.
But
Venezuelans DO NOT ELECT JUAN GUAIDO MARQUEZ. He was just there. As I
indicated, he was the person whom the constitution imposed to lead a
transition that would lead to the convocation of elections to restore
the constitutional thread. Is that what the President in Charge has
done so far? Let us continue.
It
could be said that the President-in-Office has mistakenly dedicated
himself to "governing" over what he has no competence. We
could ask the legitimate TSJ for an interpretation of Article 233,
but as Venezuelan I have the right to interpret the spirit in which
that Article was drafted, precisely on the subject at hand: "When
the absolute absence of the President-elect or President-elect occurs
before taking office, a new universal, direct and secret election
shall be held within thirty consecutive days. While the new President
is being elected and takes office, the President of the National
Assembly shall be in charge of the Presidency of the Republic...".
That
"as long as one chooses and takes possession" has
lengthened beyond what the Constituent could ever imagine. Anyone
could think, as I do, that the only concern of the President in
Charge should be the holding of those elections, not only because
those "30 consecutive days" indicated in Article 233 of the
Constitution passed, but for more than 8 months. Otherwise, the
presence of a President-in-Office would not be justified. And if the
incumbent does not or does not take as an extreme priority what the
Constitution tells him, then we Venezuelans must begin to think about
replacing him with someone who really does.
Note
that I'm not personalizing the situation here. It seems that the
President-in-Office has not assumed that in that position he is
solely responsible, not the parties that put him up and co-govern
with him. HE IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE. That's why Venezuelans have
dedicated themselves to destroying the person of Juan Guaidó Márquez
through social networks, and as a consequence their numbers in the
polls have dropped rapidly. That's why I've always thought it's
necessary to "scrap" the speech. It is an issue of
political responsibility with a people THAT HAS THE PRESIDENT IN
CHARGE.
Unfortunately,
the President in Charge has also believed his own popularity. He has
done things that affect his position and credibility. In my opinion,
the most notorious example is the creation of an "Office of the
First Lady," an instance that everyone wonders in which that
office helps accelerate the expected change with those elections,
beyond giving a position to his wife. Those are the things that show
an important deviation from the goals set when he took office as
President in Charge on January 23.
But
the most important thing is the serious deviation that has been given
to the three-step mantra, "Cessation of Usurpation-Transitional
Government-Free Elections," in that order, which all Venezuelans
approved after Guaidó took office. The President in Charge has
dismissed the mantra that they themselves approved in the National
Assembly and sought to negotiate with the regime an election without
going through a Transitional Government. The mantra has not been
repealed and the main responsible for its fulfillment is the
President in Charge.
A
group of Venezuelans have formally proposed to the President a
Constitutional way to solve the problem of the "Cessation of the
Usurpation" of Nicolás Maduro Moros, through a Popular
Plebiscite Consultation (see in Spanish, ANCO rechaza acuerdos de
cohabitación con el régimen y propone la gran Consulta Popular
Plebiscitaria, in
http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2019/09/comunicado-anco-anco-rechaza-acuerdos_20.html).
It
is possible that there are other ways to reach this "Cessation
of Usurpation", and that the President in Charge is empowered to
study. But what he cannot avoid is his obligation to give an
immediate response to the country of the obligation he assumed, and
time is not in his favor. We are offering him on a silver platter a
solution from which he and all Venezuelans will directly benefit, if
he assumes his personal responsibility as President in Charge....
In
Venezuela, the regime blurred the rule of law and the Constitution
has ceased to be in force, so Venezuelans are in the mode of
CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION, according to Article 333 . That is,
"every citizen invested or citizen invested or not invested with
authority, shall have the duty to collaborate in the re-establishment
of its effective validity". We have collaborated by offering a
constitutional solution because we are all responsible for repairing
the Popular Sovereignty that the regime has violated. But it doesn't
stop there. The Constitution gives all Venezuelans the right to
exercise our sovereignty directly (Article 5) through the means that
the Constitution itself grants us (Article 70) WITHOUT PASSING
THROUGH PUBLIC POWERS. The interception of the exercise of our
sovereignty repeatedly exhibited by those who claim to represent the
interests of Venezuelans cannot be sustained permanently....
Caracas,
September 25, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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