The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, presented this Saturday before the National Assembly a constitutional reform project with 80 new articles in order to “build a new democratic system” and “the legal, constitutional and political update of the entire constitutional gear of the 1999 Constitution “.
“You know the effort to build a new democratic system and incorporate, as we are incorporating into one of its articles, the concept of the distribution of classic power (…) I aspire with this reform that we include, tacitly and widely, communal power: territorial power, the power of the base, popular power; They would be four instances of power, where the fundamental basis would be social, communal and popular power, “said the Venezuelan president.
Thus, a new level of power would be created: communal power, adding to the existing national, regional and municipal powers. In his speech, Maduro stressed that reform seeks to expand and improve participatory and direct democracy, as well as strengthen the Democratic State and Venezuelan society.
“I ask wisdom so that these concepts go from the most to the most, that go from the fundamental concepts, of the fundamental principles, to the mechanisms and forms of application. Surely many things will remain for the development of lawsas always, organic laws, special laws, “said the president.
“We are ready to open the gates of a large and building, unifying national debate and that it is the Venezuelan society and our protagonist people of a great historical reform that adapts the 1999 Constitution to the new times with new ideas for the progress in a new era of transition to modernity, to the new modernity, “he defended.
Maduro has presented in this way three objectives in this reform: Expand and improve Venezuelan democracy, build a new society and modernity, and establish a defined economic model for future generations.
Venezuela celebrated presidential elections on July 28 in which the ruling party gave Nicolás Maduro the victory, although the opposition has claimed its triumph and has demanded that the authorities present the minutes that would support the re -election of the president.
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