“If Maduro is sworn in on January 10, we will be facing a new coup d’état in Venezuela”

The Venezuelan political scientist Leandro Rodríguez Linárez he told The Commerce that January 10 should not be taken as an ultimatum or a deadlinesince he considered that the political situation in Venezuela It is not similar, for example, to a sporting event, where minutes count.

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“There may be an outcome today, tomorrow, or laterbecause every day that passes the stage moves with new elements. Already The fact that Maduro forces his inauguration means that he is plotting a terrible coup d’étatand he does it about another coup d’état, because we must not forget that he is an illegitimate president, since the 2018 elections were also illegal and illegitimate and not recognized by the international community”Rodriguez remarked.

“We are in a political situation where strength versus the intelligence of the leader is pitted against each other.” Maria Corina Machado and the legitimate support that both she and the elected president have Edmundo González Urrutia”he added.

Rodriguez He estimated that after January 10 the opposition will continue to gain strength.

“I think that All the elements are added so that the opposition does not decline. The investiture of Maduro as de facto president can intensify the actions of the opponents much more, because there would already be the consummation of another coup d’état. Furthermore, the citizen discontent that was reflected in the July 28 vote today is even greater. It is estimated that González won with a percentage close to 75%, and that support has increased, because the situation in the country is much worse than that of the days before the elections.”he pointed out.

The political scientist maintained that what has been seen in recent days in Venezuelawith Caracas and other militarized cities; arrests like that of the former presidential candidate Enrique Marquez; threats through the use of armed civilians who are part of the so-called collectives and the parade of the Bolivarian Militiaare part of the same script that the regime appeals to: the use of force against the opposition.

“In Venezuela The institutions of the State are dominated by the Government party, the PSUVand they have resorted, with Hugo Chavez they did it but with Ripe much more, to institutionalized violence, to intimidation, to the persecution of the opposition, and today, when it became evident that they have no support of any kind, they resort to violence again in order to intimidate the Venezuelan population,” he stated.

He added that all this deployment has to do with the fear that exists in the regime. “Let us not forget that Chávez was overthrown in 2002, and the current government knows that he can be overthrown again. From that moment on, they began to use this type of harsh, inhuman violence, intimidation, to prevent the population from taking to the streets,” Rodríguez indicated.

For its part, Oscar Perezpresident of the Venezuelan Union in Peru, told The Commerce that Starting January 10, a new stage of struggle for the recovery of democracy begins in Venezuela

“Now we will have to fight against a dictatorshipbecause no one could call it anything else. For years we have been calling both Chávez and Maduro dictators, but there were people, rightly or wrongly, who said that they could not be called dictators because, with rigged elections or not, they had won at the polls, and that in In any case they were authoritarian or autocratic governments, but As of January 10, if Maduro is sworn in, we can definitely be talking about a coup d’état against democracy Perez noted.

“If that happens, The duty of every democrat, not only in Venezuela but throughout the world, will be to overthrow that dictatorshipfor which all means that can be used are valid.”he continued.

What is sought with the constitutional reform

On Wednesday, Maduro announced that he will appoint a commission to propose a reform of the 1999 Constitution. He maintained that this will be the first decree he signs in his third administration.

“After having taken the obligatory, constitutional oath before the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the first decree that I will sign will be constituting a broad national and international commission to go for a major constitutional reform”, said Ripe in a meeting with the board of directors of the National Assembly, dominated by Chavismo.

He added that with the reform wanted clearly define the Venezuelan development model for the next 30 years and democratize to infinity the political, social, and Venezuela”.

The political scientist Leandro Rodríguez Linárez explained what the final objective of this announced constitutional reform is.

He remembered that Chávez manipulated the electoral processes by using all the resources and institutions of the State in his favor.. “It was a colossal mechanism. After the elections with an advantage, the elections were held under minimal conditions for the opposition, where the CNE was already completely partisan in favor of Chavismo. With Ripe It has been the same. However, having elections today in absurd conditions, appealing to tricks and all institutional advantage, they have not been able to distort the results.”

Taking this reality into account, Rodriguez Indian that For the regime today it is vital to change the electoral system in Venezuela.

“They want a Cuban-style electoral systemwhere elections are made at the grassroots level, of course with social organizations totally controlled by the ruling party. That’s what they call the communal statewhich was already rejected by Venezuelans in a consultative referendum in 2008″, he remarked.

“But today, due to the great rejection they have, due to the impossibility of electoral fraud because they are openly evident, They have no choice but to seek a constitutional reform to have an electoral system that can be controlled by them from the communities.”he finished.