Maracay, Venezuela.- The Venezuelan Opposition removed this Friday Juan Guaidó from the interim Presidency for failing to meet its objectives.
A total of 72 former deputies of the National Assembly elected in 2015 approved the elimination of the interim period in the second and final discussion, while 29 voted to maintain it. There were 8 votes saved.
The political defeat for Guaidó, the face of the opposition to the Maduro government before the international community, occurs when the Opposition plans primary elections in which it will define who will face Maduro in the elections expected in 2024.
Guaidó, President of the opposition Assembly, failed to establish a majority to maintain the figure of the interim despite warning in a video published two days before that his removal would imply a “real risk of losing assets, lawsuits or even handing them over to the dictator.”
The decision was made by former deputies of the Assembly elected in 2015 with a majority opposing the Maduro government, which continues to sit in parallel and symbolically despite the fact that its term ended in 2021, after ignoring the legislative elections in which Maduro regained control of the National Assembly.
The parties that voted in favor of the elimination of the interim period propose the creation of a commission in charge of managing the state assets of Venezuela abroad that are still in the hands of the opposition with the ad hoc boards of the Central Bank of Venezuela and the state oil company PDVSA, thus maintaining control of Citgo
