By Luis Manuel Aguana
It is not
easy to conceive of an alternative proposal without saying what will happen
after you apply it. So far our plebiscite proposal goes as far as the exit of
the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, as a solution to the "cessation of
usurpation", as opposed to elections, which nobody in their healthy logic
can understand how to expel it. How do you expel someone from power by
competing in elections precisely with the one you want to expel, and to top it
all managed by him? If it wasn't so serious, I'd say it's a joke.
Logic
assumes that you must previously expel them through a constitutional mechanism
(i.e., cease usurpation), and then after expelled, proceed to form a
Transitional Government that calls for free elections. But this irrefutable
logic - which we did not invent - is being rejected by the official opposition,
to the point of now being a hindrance to those who approved the Transition
Statute that established it.
Negotiating
elections - and other important things in the life of the country that we do
not yet know - to live with the regime, is what is on the agenda of the
official opposition. They are not following the order established in the
Statute of the Transition, even if they tell us that they are negotiating for
the "cessation of usurpation". What they are selling us goes against
common sense. Hence, all Venezuelans await with some anxiety the outcome of
those negotiations in Barbados (formerly Oslo, Norway) in order to pronounce ourselves
definitively on that "mamarrachada" that the only thing that has been
successful is having given more time to Maduro in power.
Fighting against this electoral logic, we have proposed the Plebiscite
so that it is the people who decide the continuity of Maduro's regime, although
many wonder how it can be possible to shake off a tyranny with votes. Well, in
the way we propose the sequence, we believe that it is possible if we have all
the support of the International Community.
However, I do not
want to dwell here on the mechanism of the proposed Plebiscite, which I believe
is sufficiently explained in my previous notes (see in Spanish Porque un
Plebiscito SI y unas Elecciones NO en Venezuela, in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2019/07/porque-un-plebiscito-si-y-unas.html, Las tres fases
del Plebiscito, in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2019/07/las-tres-fases-del-plebiscito.html, Plebiscite: Let the People Decide to Cease Usurpation, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_32.html), but to look a
little further into what should happen when the usurpation ceases.
And that's where I think more analysis should start to be developed
because that's the least talked about in all of this history. The regime and
the castro-chavismo-madurismo will not leave the structure of the State or the
Venezuelan political reality immediately, even if we Venezuelans decide it and
have the external help to expel them from power.
There will be a special period in the life of the country that we call
"transition" in which very hard and difficult decisions will need to
be made that will require a great deal of political experience and wisdom,
things that have consistently been demonstrated by those who have led us to
this point in time to two failed attempts at recovery using the criminal
structure of the regime. In both 23F and 30A the official opposition conducted
failed covert negotiations with part of that criminal structure, which then
remained open in Norway and Barbados. If by any providence civil society,
through a plebiscitary process, achieves the recovery of Venezuela from the
hands of these kidnappers, control of the country will constitutionally
fall into the hands of the novices who negotiated with the regime. We cannot forget that detail for one
second.
We cannot forget that the parties that established the Transition
Statute and grudgingly agreed that Juan Guaidó would exercise a mediated
mandate as President in Charge of the Republic, without exercising all his
constitutional powers, are the people who would govern the country after
Maduro, according to that Statute, and of course according to the
constitutional mandate of Article 233. It would be little less than naivety to
think that the tangle of political corruption with which it was intended to
govern 30A would be dissolved after the "cessation of usurpation". How can this be avoided?
Some of you may say to me "but what you want is for the tiger to
eat us" arguing that after the regime leaves all these things can be
controlled because "the opposition" will be governing. To those who
say that, I must respectfully direct you to come down from that cloud. The
country will be completely dismembered and institutionally destroyed, so whoever
puts his hands on it will do with it practically whatever he wants. Will we
have institutions to control the corruption of the new rulers and avoid the
"take off yourself to put on me" which will surely come, which will
take advantage of the lack of control and the chaos that will leave us? No,
because those institutions will have to be built during the transition period. But in the meantime, what?
Therefore, during this special transition period, Venezuelans should
demand that it is not only Juan Guaidó who is in charge of the new Transitional
Government, as established in the Transitional Statute, but that it be a
Governing Council headed by the President in Charge, that is representative of
civil society and composed of personalities in whom the country trusts. That
not only the political country that is heir is there, but also the national
country, with personalities representing the life of the country, and with
sufficient political and administrative experience to support the complex and
difficult process that this new leadership will have to face, and on whom will
fall the responsibility to lead the country after coming out of the tragedy of
this regime.
In this sense, the National Assembly, according to the Transition
Statute, has the obligation to "Articulate
actions with civil society to promote mechanisms of citizen participation that
legitimize the democratic transition process and favor the cessation of the
usurpation of presidential powers by Nicolás Maduro Moros" (Article
16.6 of the Transition Statute). And what greater citizen participation than a
qualified representation of democratic civil society that leads the country's
destiny together with Juan Guaidó, at what would be the most important moment
in Venezuela's history?
This interpretation of the Transition Statute in favor of citizens is
necessary to safeguard the interests of Venezuelans until a minimum
institutional base can be built to protect the interests of all, beginning with
the Justice System. We must ensure that after this tragedy the country is not
managed by people or parties but by institutions that can be controlled by
citizens. And this leads us to the next step of this proposed trilogy: a true
Constituent process of Originary character that leads to a new
institutionalization of Venezuela.
Some may say that I am overtaking events and perhaps they are right.
However, that Transitional Government has an ethical and moral obligation to
take the decisions that will lead us to lay the foundations for a new structure
for the political, economic and social functioning of the country after the
socialist destruction. And that CANNOT be done only by the governing political
fraction. It would be serious, as well as excluding, aberrant. All Venezuelans
must and must intervene in this historic task through their genuine
representation. And this can only be achieved through an Original Constituent
process that calls for the legitimate representation of all citizens. Juan
Guaidó and that Council of Government have the highest responsibility to summon
and consult the country in the realization of an Original Constituent process
to remake the institutional bases of this destroyed country. And at the end of
that constructive process, which includes the Electoral Power, to call for
free, fair and transparent elections to manage the beginning of a new
Venezuela.
I invite you to think now of a new possible trilogy, composed of a
Plebiscite for the "cessation of usurpation", a Governing Council for
the Transition, which includes civil society as a guarantee for the citizens of
a decent government during the transition, and finally the convocation of the
Original Constituent that builds the country on new political, economic and
social bases, for the Venezuela of the new generations.
Caracas, August
3, 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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