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Tuesday December 9, 2008
3:40 PM | The National Assembly on Tuesday formally proposed an amendment to the 1999 Constitution that allows unlimited presidential eelección, a project that should be subject to a referendum.
The president of Parliament, Cilia Flores, said that the proposed amendment will affect only Article 230 of the Constitution, whose text would read: "The presidential term is six years. The chairman or president can be re-elected or re-elected."
The National Assembly will conduct two readings to the proposal and then submitted to the National Electoral Council to convene a referendum in a span of 30 days, said Flores.
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President Hugo Chávez suggested in recent days that the draft amendment was submitted by the National Assembly to expedite the process and be able to make the referendum between February and March 2009.
"Our political position and that of most of these people is that (Chavez) should remain at the forefront of the transformation processes that occur in this country," said the deputy Earle Herrera, to formally present the text.
The proposed amendment in parliament was hailed by the deputies, who sang in the choir stand and "Uh, ah, Chavez is not going!" Already become motto of the campaign for the constitutional amendment in Venezuela.
In introducing the draft, Flores recalled the amendments to the Venezuelan Constitution during the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez (1948-58) and stressed that, unlike then, this proposal should be voted on by the Venezuelan people for approval.
The request for an amendment to the Constitution can be done at the initiative of 30% of National Assembly deputies, or 15% of those registered on the electoral register (more than 2.5 million people), or by the president in council of ministers.
Parallel to the parliamentary route, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) agreed to gather signatures to give symbolic support to the request made by the National Assembly.
The indefinite presidential re-election was one of the main points of the proposed constitutional reform submitted by Chavez in 2007, which was rejected in a referendum with 50.7% of the votes.
Therefore, the Venezuelan opposition is critical to re-submit to a referendum a question on which the people already ruled a year ago.
3:40 PM | The National Assembly on Tuesday formally proposed an amendment to the 1999 Constitution that allows unlimited presidential eelección, a project that should be subject to a referendum.
The president of Parliament, Cilia Flores, said that the proposed amendment will affect only Article 230 of the Constitution, whose text would read: "The presidential term is six years. The chairman or president can be re-elected or re-elected."
The National Assembly will conduct two readings to the proposal and then submitted to the National Electoral Council to convene a referendum in a span of 30 days, said Flores.
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President Hugo Chávez suggested in recent days that the draft amendment was submitted by the National Assembly to expedite the process and be able to make the referendum between February and March 2009.
"Our political position and that of most of these people is that (Chavez) should remain at the forefront of the transformation processes that occur in this country," said the deputy Earle Herrera, to formally present the text.
The proposed amendment in parliament was hailed by the deputies, who sang in the choir stand and "Uh, ah, Chavez is not going!" Already become motto of the campaign for the constitutional amendment in Venezuela.
In introducing the draft, Flores recalled the amendments to the Venezuelan Constitution during the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez (1948-58) and stressed that, unlike then, this proposal should be voted on by the Venezuelan people for approval.
The request for an amendment to the Constitution can be done at the initiative of 30% of National Assembly deputies, or 15% of those registered on the electoral register (more than 2.5 million people), or by the president in council of ministers.
Parallel to the parliamentary route, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) agreed to gather signatures to give symbolic support to the request made by the National Assembly.
The indefinite presidential re-election was one of the main points of the proposed constitutional reform submitted by Chavez in 2007, which was rejected in a referendum with 50.7% of the votes.
Therefore, the Venezuelan opposition is critical to re-submit to a referendum a question on which the people already ruled a year ago.
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