00:00Let's go live to Caracas, Venezuela, where Jorge Rodríguez, the President of the National
00:04Assembly, is offering statements at this moment.
00:08Let's listen.
00:09It's a proposal that arises from the Constitutional Board for consultation and to be addressed
00:18for the parties and the communal councils, cultural groups, universities, faculty of
00:24law and others.
00:27The legislative commission presided by Carlos Martinez has made a broad development of all
00:36the legal documents of our legislation to address the electoral events and political
00:46participation for organic law, electoral power, electoral processes, the Supreme Court of
00:55Justice.
00:59Here we address the debate of deciding if the electoral board has power, which is nonsense.
01:08It is established in the Constitution and it's a truth that if there is an electoral
01:12board, it's so the electoral conscience to be carried out in this.
01:21In the Supreme Court of Justice, law has established the functions of each one.
01:28So regarding the electoral code, it has to do with the electoral events in Venezuela.
01:32Then we have the law of constitutional right and the right of vote, which is a constitutional
01:39right.
01:40We also have laws that have been left back, especially the law of political parties, public
01:49gathering and mobilizations.
01:54It has been talked about certain amends that are needed in this law, but the law of political
02:03parties requires more attention of the legislator so that we adapt this law to new times and
02:13to prevent and stop the attempts of utilization of political tools of the Constitution to
02:23attempt against the homeland for guerrilla violence, murdering and invasion, etc.
02:31And then the mission of the technical commission that has been working and addressing the functioning
02:40of the political party, the way in which these political parties need to inform the population,
02:47the finance of the electoral campaigns are elements addressed by this committee.
02:55Since we have advanced in the study of legal instruments that include the law of resolution
03:01of the National Electoral Council, the sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice in the electoral
03:09room, which is an analysis about the electoral legislation of Venezuela, and it's a guide
03:18regarding the amends of the electoral laws in Venezuela.
03:23It's hard work.
03:25We have advanced in it, so we have decided to extend consultations to another sector
03:32of the Venezuelan society, and we have elaborated an agenda to start next week with the universities
03:39and certain specific groups of citizens and non-governmental organizations, communal councils,
03:47communes, and regional parties, as well as parties in the municipalities, the school
03:55of law, and all people who want to take part in the development of the legislative system
04:02in Venezuela.
04:05I'm going to allow myself to inform you about certain news.
04:12I will inform you briefly that next week we will carry out a consultation in several sectors
04:17of the civil, social, political life in Venezuela, and we also are going to travel this Deputy's
04:24Commission to several regions of the country to exchange with these sectors in states and municipalities.
04:35Citizens and President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro Moro, mentioned yesterday that he got
04:44a letter of the National Assembly.
04:46I want to show it to media and read it.
04:50Caracas, October 15, 2024.
04:53Citizen Nicolas Maduro Moro, Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
05:00The President received greetings.
05:03I'm grateful to address you and extend to you my invitation so that you, as elected
05:10candidate on July 8, assist to be sworn in and inaugurate the position of President of
05:22the Republic of Venezuela for the constitutional period 2025-2031 on January 10, 2025, in the
05:31Federal Legislative Palace, headquarters of the National Assembly, according to what
05:36was considered in the Article 231 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, reiterating
05:44my feelings and consideration, quarterly Deputy Jorge Rodriguez, President of the National Assembly.
05:52And here is the signature of the Presidency of the Republic.
06:01Next January 10, President Maduro will be sworn in.
06:07As the Article 231 of our Constitution establishes, the candidate elected will assume the position
06:17of President of the Republic on January 10 of the first year of its constitutional period
06:23and sworn in ahead of the National Assembly.
06:28So we have sent the letter, which was received in the Presidency of the Republic.
06:36Any questions?
06:44For Venezuelan News, Fabiana Marquez, you were talking about the elaboration of a new
06:48law of defense of the national sovereignty and self-determination.
06:53I would like to know about the main proposals for the building of this law and also to know
06:58about, getting out of topic, your opinion about the report on the mission of termination
07:07of facts, taking into account that this delegation has never visited Venezuela and has supported
07:12political propaganda of extremist sectors of the opposition.
07:15I'm not going to talk about these clowns.
07:18The conversation is very good to introduce this topic, talking about these mercenaries
07:24that are not respected in the whole planet.
07:31This is all a lie.
07:32They don't have a mission.
07:33And in the United Nations, they are disregarded.
07:38They are liars, mercenaries.
07:40But about what you were mentioning regarding the law, a little bit so that you understand
07:46the legal procedure when building a law.
07:51First the law comes out of the Constitution.
07:54The Constitution is the one that rules the legislative development based on the necessities
08:00that can allow the development of this concept.
08:06Then we may have an initiative of citizens, deputies, in this case it's the committee
08:12that was developing this broad dialogue commission.
08:19And above all, for the development of Article 130 of our Constitution, this law especially
08:29to avoid the use of political participation and political movement and non-governmental
08:37organizations for conspiracy, violence, and death.
08:44It is not possible that every time that elections are carried out in Venezuela, political groups
08:54say something and call people to take to the streets and the citizens are the ones suffering
09:12and while they are resting in bed in an embassy, while they are happy in Madrid right now,
09:36they are under the bed in an embassy.
09:44This cannot happen again.
09:50And when we start working in a specific law, the first thing you have to do is analyze
09:57the objective of this law.
09:59And right now it's just a proposal and an important process of consultation is still
10:07necessary so that parties and society can assert that a certain element is necessary to
10:15be incorporated in the law.
10:16But to answer to your question, if there is a proposal, it is to protect the exercise
10:22of political sovereignty and avoid foreign intervention and organizations for defense
10:34of political law and residents that carry out political activity and the participation
10:39and defense of foreign citizens that under the finance of these organizations can attempt
10:46against stability and the functioning of organizations of the republic.
10:51It cannot be possible that a murderer comes out, a terrorist, a mercenary, to say I'm
10:57going to get money to go to Venezuela to kill the president, to kill the ministers, to kill
11:02the vice president, to kill somebody.
11:05This cannot happen.
11:08Let's imagine that this happens in the United States of America, that in Kazakhstan someone
11:16can gather money to go to the United States and murder a specific political personality.
11:23What could happen?
11:26Then this is a law mainly to protect peace.
11:32We have an election and the winner won and the loser has lost and life continues as it
11:40happened after elections on July 28, 2024, because in the end they are the ones that
11:52are part of the people and inciting violence.
11:56Who is to blame for the crimes committed against the people?
12:00This person is here, there in Madrid, happy, enjoying life for his prosperous life and
12:10the other one is hidden in an embassy and the families of these Venezuelans who were
12:15murdered, what about them?
12:20We are addressing two laws that are severe regarding the respect and defense of the peaceful
12:29life of Venezuela, because if you have an economic activity and after this economic
12:33activity you don't go well, then you can go out of the door of your store and declare,
12:45well, let's kill and generate violence because I didn't do well.
12:50Well, this is what a sector of the extreme right of Venezuela has been doing that has
12:55implemented fascist practices and then every time they lose an election, society has to
13:04pay because of their violence.
13:08This is over.
13:09If you want to carry out war, go to your war, but don't generate war in Venezuela.
13:17And the state is going to respond correctly to this activity.
13:22But if you are inscribed in an election, don't respect the electoral authorities and the
13:27Supreme Court of Justice and the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
13:31The only thing that you respect is violence and death.
13:37We are going strong to legislate to avoid these practices to continue.
13:46Well, during this afternoon, since the morning we have attended what is happening.
13:58But one of the proposals that came out of the HOP directive of this party is that they
14:04came to the National Assembly to place in this political dialogue board that any politician
14:12expelled from any kind of organization can participate in another political party due to the
14:20causes that generated this expulsion.
14:24I would like to know your opinion about this.
14:30And Enrique Marquez and Kerry also said that they are going to comply with the
14:35sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice, even though they don't
14:38recognize this.
14:39Similar to what happened with Emmanuel González.
14:41What do you think about it?
14:43Well, about the issues related to political parties, we don't interfere there due to our
14:55point of view of legislative power.
14:57And the only political power recognized by the Constitution and laws of the Republic
15:01is the political power that was appointed for the presidential elections of July 28,
15:08with its representative for the National Electoral Council, which is Deputy José
15:12Brito and the national authorities.
15:15Regarding the other topic, although we don't interfere,
15:28the worst of these people are the ones talking about, for example, Julio Borges.
15:33Because when a mercenary called Orlando Bedaño publishes something, Julio Borges is the one
15:41behind this, because Orlando Bedaño and Armando Hernández, I don't know the exact name,
15:50all of them, Julio Borges is the one speaking behind them.
15:56It's the money of Venezuelans stolen by Julio Borges.
16:01And then he orders people to publish that Tomás Juanita was gathering in an apartment
16:08with José Brito.
16:09Did you see that?
16:10That's Julio Borges.
16:13Then we have to see what Tomás Juanita answered to him, because they are talking about this
16:20right now.
16:23Do you know what Juanita said to Borges?
16:25You're trash.
16:28We were listening to a statement.
16:32We were live to Caracas, Venezuela, where the President of the National Assembly, Jorge
16:36Rodríguez, offered statements during a meeting of the Special Commission for the Analysis of
16:41Electoral Laws.
16:42In his remarks, Rodríguez informed on the extension of consultations for the electoral
16:46laws of the country and assured Venezuela's legislation is adapting to new times and the
16:51population will always be informed about the hard work of lawmakers in the country.
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