All new members arrived yesterday marching and accompanied by their constituents to the installation of the National Assembly of Venezuela, which will legislate until 2016. Chavez's supporters, chanting the slogan "We are most / with Hugo Chávez Frías," and opponents under the slogan "Fifty-two percent / Fifty-two percent" in reference to the percentage of popular votes won in parliamentary elections 26 September 2010.The event marked the return of the opposition parties to the legislature and the loss of qualified majority by the ruling party, which during the last five years allowed President Hugo Chávez to rule with ease and pass key legislation. But at least until June 2012, the Venezuelan president will not have to worry about lost seats up to six months before presidential elections which will run for a third term of six years, will force the special powers to rule by decree that last December gave the previous Parliament.
However, the opposition wants to compete with Chavez in the field of social legislation and bring up labor laws, laws granting public lands, and Social Security laws that the government has done, despite being defined as a socialist and have had carte blanche for many years. Of the 165 members that comprise the new National Assembly of Venezuela, 98 belong to the ruling bloc consisting of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Communist Party and 67 opposition organizations that make up the Bureau for Democratic Unity and Fatherland party To All, dissenting Chavez.
However, only the bed of Chavez was represented on the board of the Legislature, which until 2012 will be presided by Fernando Soto Rojas, an octogenarian former guerrilla of the sixties, and included members Eeckout Aristobulo Isturiz and White -Two former government ministers Chavez on charges of first and second vice president.
"We will develop legislative and policy people to leave behind the liberal-bourgeois project of representation," Soto Rojas promised yesterday on behalf of the PSUV. There have been calls for dialogue in his inaugural address. Expected to advance the management of this Parliament will be "marked by confrontation and debate, but in holy peace." Although it does not have enough votes to pass or repeal laws, by their very presence in the legislature the opposition promises to give a turn to political debate, in your opinion, has been out of the country's needs.
"We represent the majority of the votes in the street and that gives us legitimacy, over whether we have a majority in the Assembly. The idea is to pressure from the outside in order to assert that majority to Parliament to have an agenda focused on the needs of the people and for political control of the government, "said Rep.
Julio Borges on behalf of Officers of the Democratic Unity (MUD). A central plank of his political project is to promote social content standards as a new Labour Law or Social Security Act, rather than legislative activity focused on giving more powers to the president. At the opening session, each intervention of an opposition MP, the Chavez responded with shouts of "murderers" or "we are the majority." deputy Alfonso Marquina, the first speaker in the MUD, and promised war said: "Here are majority with 98 votes, but not in the street, not the vote of Venezuelans.
(...) They may want to silence the Members who are here, but the cry of democracy and freedom resound throughout the country in 2012 (when presidential elections are due). "
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