Political reading of the venezuelan parliamentary elections

Political reading of the venezuelan parliamentary elections

By Gustavo Angel Cabrera

"Today I start a discussion, as well as my friend told Moses Moleiro - >> << Anthropological, because in a month have deeply mobilized Venezuelan life has been completely changed to a worrying repudiation of civil society against the Executive. If made ​​public the statistics held by the government and we saw the level of unpopularity, lack of political floor of the current government, it would be something dramatic. " Reinaldo Cervini. Debate in the previous Congress about the rebellion of February 4, 1992.

Only the people can save the people, with the participation of men and women of today, we can reconstruct the building ... it depends on the participation of all, the possibility that we can raise the building. " Hugo Chavez 10.04.1995

The government's defeat in parliamentary elections last Sunday, 06 November is clear. We highlight a repudiation of civil society against the executive and all his acolytes, who for three periods devoted to undermine the democratic structures of a society, proclaimed "socialism of the XXI century" betraying the principles and legal legal base of our Constitution of 1999. It is amazing to see the high levels of participation in parliamentary elections, which for the first time in Venezuelan political history, opponents factors obtained a qualified majority with 112 seats against 55, which allows a majority qualified. They can create laws and / or repeal other, approve and disapprove memoirs and accounts of the Executive and ministers, open inquiry necessary, appoints members of the Supreme Court, Ombudsman, Prosecutor General's Office. To exercise the comptroller function in economic, legal and financial matters. Order amnesty for political prisoners. It even has the power to request legal inquiries about individual wealth and capital, as is the case of hidden economic groups that were given the task of buying media and so far does not appear who are the owners. In a democratic society, the parliament has the function of checks and balances against the executive power. Its role is autonomous, backed by the Constitution

What happened in recent years with the ruling parliamentary majority of nature ?. The parliament became a subsidiary office in Miraflores, see the summary dated collects National December 6, 2015: "Broken Noses, beatings, and extensive parliamentary disqualifications ratings Executive, very few laws, far below target proposals (...) During the past five years, 32 deputies left their jobs to take positions on the National Executive or as governors and mayors. The opposition lost two seats and the ruling party won the qualifying in 2013 to strip his immunity María Aranguren, dissident majority PSUV. The official bed rest was a seat this year by naming Henry Ventura Health Minister being its deputy ambassador. In 2015, citizens were left without the possibility of electing the 11 representatives of Parlatino, after a motion of urgency Parliament President Diosdado Cabello, now be selected in second grade ratings. "This means that the ruling party He did the National Assembly to approve their backyard with all the parliamentary majority that saw fit and deny everything that came from anti-government factors.

But this is not all. Journalists are being harassed, they are applied increasingly humiliating restrictions. ANTV TV Channel became an appendage of the government moving images and interviews with members of the ruling awning. Nor were welcomed proposed laws promoted by citizens' initiative, the proposed First Employment Act, introduced by Primero Justicia backed by 200,000 signatures. In 2012 the opposition bloc submitted a draft amnesty law that would allow the release of political prisoners, but it was never discussed. In 2013 the opposition a bill consign general increase in wages and salaries, which also entered the discussion of the Chamber of Deputies. Like any national problem to warrant a debate in the National Assembly was denied by the government majority. Just it was discussed and approved what they saw and had the approval of the Executive. The ruling parliamentary majority became a seal that only raised their approval or denial hand, if and only if it had the consent of the PSUV party, Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello.

But not content with this, Diosdado Cabello has a TV show called "the hammer" in which each week adjectival their opponents, subjected to public ridicule, Leopoldo Lopez called it "The Monster Ramo Verde", condemning first, to determine what the TSJ (Everyone realized that it was an order of Hair). Has a network of informants and toads which has the luxury of recording telephone conversations of his opponents, take them private photos and tracking their whereabouts. It is a process of police intelligence bodies competing with state security. It is seen most clearly distortion of a President of a parliament in a democratic society, fulfilling functions that are not within its competence and violating the Constitution. With the results of the December 6, 2015, Diosdado becomes a deputy more of the 55 seats in the ruling and without any power to run or violate the regulations of the National Assembly, as is customary.

With these results the Chavez lost an important stronghold and now, as he has already announced Nicolas Maduro, try to minimize, ignore, veto its decisions with the power they still have. They never recognize that lost by a stunning and causes of their defeat, do not accept that majorities reject their interventionist and totalitarian project, living back to society, trying to keep the people with his handouts of oil revenues, with economic controls and destruction of the productive apparatus of the country. For political analyst and journalist Alonso Moleiro, "A parliamentary majority of the MUD serves to break the code of silence disgusting prevailing in the other branches of government regarding the management of the thing public, dismantle the most intransigent sectors of Chavismo, insulate against the country. " The task of these 112 deputies will be daunting because the governing factors became accustomed to not having counterweight to do what they pleased, to silence any criticism, to control the other branches. And disassemble this odious pyramid structure and submissive not be easy. Many who fought in Chavez, know how rotten and corrupt that it is turned inward, as recently denounced the former economy minister Jorge Giordani and former Education Minister Hector Navarro. It still creates an environment of uncertainty for 2016 because the government has said there will be dialogue, disrespecting the majority vote for change, digging up the hatchet. Changing times come new and something said to be unstoppable.

NOTE: The quotes that head this article are related to two crucial moments in the political life of the country. The first rescue the legitimacy of the Venezuelan Parliament when debating the coup of February 4, 1992 and almost acquittal of the coup by the economic crisis facing the country. The second, self Hugo Chavez in an unprecedented speech in 1995, after being acquitted by an amnesty decree of President Rafael Caldera. Both approaches, despite the time elapsed time, seems to regain force in the new political actors. You can also compare the difference between a parliament that allowed the debate and even President Caldera makes the decision to grant amnesty to all who participated in the Failed coup of February 4 and November 27, 1992, incorporating them into public life with all its duties and constitutional rights. Clear difference with the biased and rowdy behavior of the chavista majority using the articulation of powers, currently kidnapped, conviction, assaults, handled, violates the Constitution.