This Tuesday, your Parliament appointed Delcy Rodriguez as president of the country. “With pain for the suffering of the Venezuelan people after an illegitimate aggression, but with honor,” the new president determined with her hand raised in the center of the Elliptical room of the Venezuelan Parliament.
“I swear by Hugo Chavez, by our youth, by my mother, by my brother and by my honor, that I will not give up to see Venezuela on the pedestal of honor that belongs to it,” he continued. “I swear to the people of Venezuela that I will not rest for a minute to restore peace of mind.”
The former vice president of Venezuela invited Donald Trump last morning to work on “We extend the invitation to the Government of the United States to work together on a cooperation agenda, aimed at shared development, within the framework of international legality, and strengthen lasting community coexistence.” “Venezuela has the right to peace, development, its sovereignty and the future,” he noted.
Jorge Rodríguez, re-elected president of Parliament
The session of the National Assembly, called ‘installation of the legislative constitutional period 2026-2031’, has also served to elect Delcy’s brother and also a key figure of Chavismo, Jorge Gutiérrez, as president of the Chamber, along with the two vice presidents.
The deputy, who took the oath in front of a painting of Maduro and his wife, has presided over the Chamber since 2021, that is, during the last two legislative periods, and will now lead the Assembly for at least one more year, since every January 5 Parliament must vote to elect a new president.
Main objective: the return of Maduro
The re-elected president of the Assembly has declared in his investiture speech that his main objective will be the return of the president of the country. “My main function in the days to come, my function as a man, as a deputy, as president of this National Assembly, to all the tribunes and all the spaces to manage to bring back Nicolás Maduro Moro, my brother, my president“Rodríguez declared after taking his oath of office.
The head of the Venezuelan Legislature has promised to promote dialogue in the new legislative period that began this Monday with the installation and swearing-in of the members of the National Assembly elected in the elections last May 10.
“Some of us think differently, but we are guarantors of the will of this entire people of thirty million inhabitants. We are guarantors of their dreams, we are guarantors of their expectations, and above all, we are guarantors of their need and desire to live in peace,” he stated.
