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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a live broadcast from Charallave, Miranda state, where he questioned the liberal bourgeois democracy and announced a constitutional reform to further democratize Venezuela. December 19, 2024. Photo: Presidential Press.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that he has formed a team “to consider a major constitutional reform that will further democratize Venezuelan society, empower citizens, and consolidate Venezuela’s freedom, national sovereignty, and popular sovereignty.”
At an event in Charallave, Miranda state, on Thursday, December 19, he presented 21 recently rehabilitated health facilities throughout Venezuela. President Maduro also announced that the constitutional reform has “great international and national advisors… along with our people” and is inspired by the elections of judges and justices of peace held on December 15.
“Venezuela is seeing more and better democracy—more and better participation—and for there to be democracy, the people are key. The old Western bourgeois liberal philosophy that democracy must depend only on political parties is a lie.”
He said that “electoral campaigns are a tournament of demagogy, lies, false offers or money” to control the media and social networks. “That is not a democracy, it is a farce, a theater of the absurd, and Venezuela does not want to create theaters of the absurd. Venezuela is imbued with the idea of a new, modern democracy for the 21st century.”
Last Wednesday, President Maduro criticized the “false liberal democracy” that exists in the world and called for the construction of a new electoral political system. In an event broadcast on national television with judges and justices of the peace, the Venezuelan president called for overcoming “the old methods of politicking, lies, demagogy, and electoral manipulation, so that ordinary people can run their campaigns and reach high positions.”
In the president’s opinion, the bourgeoisie imposed a false liberal democracy “with its methods, its lies, its demagogy, its farce. The bourgeois electoral processes are all a farce where, in the end, the one who lies best, the one who deceives best, the one who offers the impossible prevails, and the one who manipulates the polls, big data, and artificial intelligence. The one who manipulates through social media, and not the one who has more honesty, more capacity, as in your case,” he said in his speech to those recently elected as communal justices of peace.
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“All my life, I have cultivated a dream of a different democracy, one that is truly free. Free of demagogy, false offers, and manipulation. I believe that the time has come for colleagues in the National Assembly to legislate and put an end to lies in politics.”
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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