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Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The swearing-in of new Venezuelan legislators in the 2016 – 2021 National Assembly on January 5, started with trouble as legislators of the defeated PSUV walked out in protest over a technicality. The incident predicts troubles in the Latin American country with heightened political tensions, the risk of violent confrontations and a situation that could render the economically weakened country ungovernable.

New legislators sworn in while PSUV legislators walk out amidst mutual verbal mudslinging. Photo courtesy teleSUR.

Venezuela’s socialist PSUV suffered a crushing defeat to the opposition coalition Democratic Roundtable (MUD) in Venezuela’s 2015 parliamentary elections.  The country’s opposition alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) won 109 seats while the United Socialist Party (PSUV) has 55.

Especially noteworthy was that the three elected indigenous representatives, while officially independent, campaigned from the opposition platform and are likely to support the new MUD government.

The new MUD government and the MUD dominated National Assembly is likely to result in a number of sweeping changes after 15 years of PSUV rule. The change of the political power structure is according to many analysts also foreshadowing increased instability as the PSUV, the Communist Party and socialist grassroots movements are likely to oppose the new government, in the National Assembly, in communities and in the streets.

MUD won super-majority.

The swearing-in ceremony of new legislators on January 5 foreshadowed how the deeply entrenched PSUV, after 15 years in power, is likely to respond to the new government.

Henry Ramos Allup was sworn in as President of the National Assembly at the beginning of the ceremony.

Allup, considered a neo-liberal who has his background in the formerly ruling Democratic Action party, stressed his determination to unite the legislators with regard to procedures that shall secure the exit of the Maduro government within six month.

After the ceremony MUD legislator and head of the MUD’s parliamentary group Julio Borges presented his faction’s vision for a legislative plan for 2016.

The 54 PSUV legislators led by former National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello responded by walking out of the Assembly in protest over a technicality.

Cabello and his PSUV comrades protested over Borge’s violation of parliamentary procedures which stipulate that the function of the first session of the National Assembly is, exclusively, the election of the National Assembly Leadership.

Notwithstanding that decisions about whom to elect most likely have been made long before the session and that Borge’s presentation of his ideas for a legislative plan was of greater rhetoric than of electoral value, the PSUV faction apparently used the occasion to join the session of political posturing. Cabello explained the “walk-out” to the press, saying:

“We are 54 legislators of the country who are prepared to defend the people of Venezuela. .. We walked out because we made a formal complain that was ignored.”

May 2015 Leopoldo Lopez declared hunger strike via video.

Temperaments in the National Assembly also began boiling when MUD legislators chanted “freedom for Lopez” while PSUV legislators retaliated by denouncing the MUD legislators as “right-wing fascists”.

Leopoldo Lopez has been detained since he turned himself in February 2014, accused of having incited violent protests against the administration of President Nicolas Maduro.

In 2015 Lopez and a number of other members of the MUD coalition were also accused of plans to launch a foreign (read US) backed coup branded as “the blue coup”. The coup plans followed well-defined US subversion strategies.

After finally walking out, the 54 PSUV legislators joined a crowd of protesters outside the National Assembly, holding speeches to reiterate “their steadfast support for the people and the socialist government”.

After the PSUV legislators already had walked out, Julio Borges announced to the remaining majority inside the National Assembly that one of the MUD’s top-priorities for 2016 is an amnesty law for political prisoners, including and especially those who had been sentenced for violence during protests against the PSUV regime.

President Maduro (middle) with Vicepresident Arreaza (left of Maduro) and Minister of Defense Padrino Lopez (right to Maduro) during the presidential act with the FANB (VTV)

Key Indicators Suggest Venezuela Risks Destabilization and Serious Crisis that could Render the Country Ungovernable.

Many analysts fear that the cycle of violence that was ignited by anti PSUV protesters will escalate because the outcome of the elections increases the likelihood of protests, including violent protests by both the MUD and associated organizations as well as by the PSUV, the Communist Party, unions and associated grassroots organizations.

Besides the mud-slinging and walk-out during the first session of the National Assembly there are several key indicators that suggest the likelihood of increased tensions and eventually violence that may severely destabilize the country.

The PSUV responded to its crushing electoral defeat by calling for the establishment of “Street Parliaments” to defend the achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution.

In mid-December 2015 President Nicolas Maduro revealed that members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) who are currently working in public administration positions will be required to leave their posts and return to their military units.

Cardinal Urosa Sabino has backed the MUD over its proposed amnesty law (Aporrea)

Venezuela’s influential Catholic Church, for is part, declared that it supports the amnesty law that has been proposed by Borges and the MUD. The position of the Catholic Church in that regard was made public by Cardinal Urosa Sabino in mid-December 2015.

It is noteworthy that the Catholic Church and its clergy has supported numerous Latin American right-wing, including dictatorial regimes.

This includes the present Pope Francis whom most Argentinians remember as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio who hobnobbed with Argentina’s Junta, the USA and the CIA during Argentina’s so-called “Dirty War” as documented in an article entitled “Washington’s Pope”? Who is Pope Francis I? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” by Professor Michel Chossudovsky.

Also in mid-December Venezuela’s Communist Party (PCV) and Venezuelan Unions asked President Nicolas Maduro to sign a Worker’s Council Law before the new legislators begin working in their offices on January 6, 2016.

Also in mid-December the outgoing National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello and PSUV legislators created what they described as a “National Communal Parliament“.

(Minci)

In early January President Nicolas Maduro signed several laws before his “Decree Powers” expire. The laws cover parts of Venezuela’s economy, social security and grassroots initiatives and were decreed through the so-called Enabling Law that was adopted in response to revelations about an alleged coup plan in 2015.

The legislation decreed by Maduro before the deadline also include the creation of the “Popular Council of State” that allows Venezuelan citizens to directly participate in the work of government.

Maduro’s deadline decrees have been praised by many PSUV supporters  and criticized by the MUD as attempt to establish a parallel government.

Many independent observers warn about the possible abuse of popular councils, street parliaments and other attempts by Venezuela’s PSUV to entrench itself after the electoral defeat in a way that could lead to rendering the economically stressed country ungovernable and plunge it into a serious crisis.

A too confrontational approach by the PSUV to having become a minority party in the National Assembly could not only lead to a domestic crisis. The situation implies the risk that it could lead to increased foreign meddling by countries who would benefit from an unstable neo-liberal government in the oil-rich country as well as by Cuban, Russian and Chinese brokers who are likely to attempt to counter US and certain EU members’ geopolitical ambitions.

CH/L – nsnbc 07.01.2015