By Luis Manuel Aguana
Historically,
strike has been a term associated with labor activity. The concept is to cease
a certain work activity in protest and/or search for better conditions in front
of an employer. Seen in this way, it seems that what is proposed as an
Indefinite Electoral Strike would not fit into this traditional concept.
However, the Venezuelan reality is distorted. It turns out that those who are
our subordinates, that is, our leaders, have taken up what only belongs to each
Venezuelan, which is nothing more than sovereignty, ignoring that those who are
the leaders are us, the Venezuelans. All of them, those who exercise de facto
power and those who claim to oppose it.
Just to
remind you of the terms, I am transcribing the definitions in the second
meaning so that we all have them very clear: "Mandate: 2. m. and f. A person who, in a consensual contract
called a mandate, entrusts another with his personal representation, or the
management or performance of one or more businesses. Mandatee: 2. m. and f. A
person who, by virtue of a consensual contract known as a mandate, agrees to
represent the plaintiff personally, or to manage or conduct one or more
businesses” (DRAE, update 2019, https://dle.rae.es/). What does this tell us?
That by the work and grace of the tyranny and of those who claim to represent
us in the official opposition, it turns out that roles were exchanged, and now
they, assuming the role of principals, decide what should happen in this
country, without taking into account who we are and what is rightfully ours.
But
there's something even worse than that. The 1999 Constitution established in a
deliberate and strict manner that sovereignty can be exercised DIRECTLY without
the interception of the State's public powers. Hence, Article 4 of the 1961
Constitution, which indicated that "Sovereignty resides in the people who
exercise it, through suffrage, by the organs of Public Power" (giving the
leaders supreme power), was transformed in the 1999 Constitution into Article
5, as "Sovereignty resides in the people, who exercise it directly in
the manner provided for in this Constitution and in the law, and
indirectly, through suffrage, by the organs that exercise Public Power".
This restored to the constituents the supreme power at any time, if they so
decided. This new Constitutional provision gave the Sovereign people of
Venezuela since 1999 the full RIGHT to directly exercise their sovereignty, by
virtue of the fact that the constituents who rose up with our representation
completely destroyed our country. It is as simple as that.
But what's not so simple is putting things
back in place. After many years of asking those who claim to represent us to
call on the People's Sovereignty to decide what should happen in our country,
how should the social group react so that their demands are met? How should a
people that claims to be those new "owners" who rose up with our
representation, and who asks to be called to decide their destiny, and what is
offered is another electoral farce to continue in the usufruct of something
that does not belong to them, react? The labor history of the world has an
answer for that: a strike.
And this time it is more than a strike, it is
the demand of a people to the Human Right to choose in freedom in an authentic
and transparent way, so that our right to be the true principals in our own
country as a sovereign people is restored. We have that right established and
accepted in the legislation of Venezuela long before the
Castro-Chávez-Madurista plague descended upon us, as was well expressed by the
proponents of the proposed Indefinite Electoral Strike, made known yesterday
through a document of the same name (see in Spanish Propuesta: Huelga Electoral
Indefinida, en https://tinyurl.com/y3wu5hst). The
demand for the restitution of the right to choose is the key to the solution of
the problem of Venezuela as a whole. That is where this cancer was born, which
we are fighting when the regime disrupted the Venezuelan electoral mechanism in
2004 with the recall referendum of Hugo Chávez Frías.
If the electoral procedures and systems had not been
distorted and maliciously disrupted by the regime-controlled CNE, Venezuela's
problem would have been successfully resolved the same year when Chávez's
recall referendum was actually due, and the People's Sovereignty would have
acted accordingly.
Venezuelans can no longer tolerate a distorted system
for electing rulers. That has to stop, and the proposal is that we ourselves,
the mandators, stop it by going on an Indefinite Electoral Strike, stopping
voting until the sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice Legitimo is
fulfilled, which on June 13, 2018 declared "NULL
AND UNAPPLICABLE the use of the automated voting and counting system that
currently exists in Venezuela for the election of the positions of popular
representation of the public powers, as well as for the holding of the
referendums, in the terms indicated in Article 293. 5 of the Constitution of
the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", and ordering the CNE "...to purge and update the National
Electoral Registry, making the necessary corrections to the identity of each
Venezuelan or foreign citizen authorized to vote, as well as designing and
implementing a voting and scrutiny system that is essentially manual, where the
use of technology and information is auxiliary and only for the benefit of the
speed, publicity, transparency and efficiency of the vote, counting and
totalization, without implying any limitation of the right of participation of
the voters and of the political parties or organizations, in full guarantee of
the public confidence in the exercise of the vote" (see complete sentence in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2018/06/tribunal-supremo-de-justicia-declara.html).
The most serious thing in all this history is
not that the regime has not complied with this historic ruling, it is that the
official opposition has completely ignored it, negotiating with the regime a
new NEC (before the defenestration of the leadership of the opposition parties)
without complying with the order of the TSJ Legitimo on June 13, 2018. I am
convinced that this omission is in no way a mistake or an oversight. It is the
intention of the official opposition parties to continue in a post-regime era
WITH THE SAME VOTE-COUNTING SYSTEM. But this time with a different mandatee. And that we cannot tolerate if we are the principals.
That is why a humanitarian solution of an
electoral nature such as the one requested from the OAS is INDISPENSABLE, in
which it is the international community that counts the votes in any subsequent
electoral process that is organized for any circumstance in Venezuela, until we
Venezuelans have a new system of our own that guarantees us a free and
authentic electoral process. And that is not done overnight. The electoral
process is the cornerstone of the solution to this conflict. Even if the regime
leaves by force, we Venezuelans would be committing mass political suicide if
we go to the next electoral process with the same system of counting votes that
Jorge Rodriguez founded in 2004, and that guaranteed the permanence of the
regime until today. It would be used by the next person who wants to stay
forever.
The Indefinite Electoral Strike applies from
now on and until we have in Venezuela a free and authentic system of counting
votes, even if the tyranny is gone. Let's start that strike today. Tomorrow the
future generations will thank us...
Caracas, July 31, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario