{"id":6865,"date":"2019-02-03T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T02:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2019-02-03T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T02:48:52","slug":"venezuelas-president-calls-for-early-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6865","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s President Calls for Early Parliamentary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Caracas, Feb 3 (NNN- PRENSA LATINA) At a mass rally to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution, President Nicolas Maduro has called to celebrate early Parliamentary elections as a way to curtail the US-backed coup and achieve peace and stability in Venezuela.<br>Maduro addressed a huge demonstration along Bolivar Avenue in downtown Caracas in his first <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">open air<\/g> speech since the failed assassination attempt last August on the same avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the government came out to rally to defend democracy and the Maduro administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;If you want, we want,&#8217; the Head of State told the opposition while calling for national legislative elections, a task he assigned to the President of the Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro emphasized his Government is determine to restore the legislative power and the legal, normal functions of Parliament whose opposition members are in contempt since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Until when will they hurt the nation? It&#8217;s enough of so much damage done to the Homeland!&#8217; The President stressed, urging the opposition to think on the consequences of their actions and inviting them to abandon interventionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Stop shouting for war; stop calling for a foreign military intervention; stop backing a coup d&#8217;Etat that has already failed. It failed and you don&#8217;t realize it. Revolution is governing here, and We will keep governing,&#8217; insisted Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US administration called last weekend for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to condemn the Venezuelan government as a preamble for deepening political meddling and a military intervention, but 19 members of that body, out of 20, rejected Washington&#8217;s maneuvering and called to respect Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the UN 191 members have recognized the Maduro administration as legitimate and a democratically elected government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On efforts to restore peace and political order in the nation, the Head of State thanked the initiatives presented by the governments of Mexico, Uruguay and Bolivia to set up a negotiating table among all sides in an effort to secure democracy in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/caraas-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6866\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/caraas-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/caraas-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/caraas-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/caraas-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/caraas.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Venezuela President Maduro during  <br>Annual message to the Nation from the AN photo courtesy of nicolasmaduro.org.ve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With regards to military defense of the nation, Maduro appealed to deepening the civil-military unity, and called on all the forces to take part in the military drills on the Bicentennial of Angostura, slated for February 10 through 15. &#8216;They will be the most important in the nation&#8217;s history&#8217;, he pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on militiamen to join the Boliviarian National Armed Forces as regular soldiers or the Bolivarian National Guard as active members\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas, Feb 3 (NNN- PRENSA LATINA) At a mass rally to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution, President Nicolas Maduro has called to celebrate early Parliamentary elections as a way to curtail the US-backed coup and achieve peace and stability in Venezuela.Maduro addressed a huge demonstration along Bolivar Avenue in downtown Caracas in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}