Venezuela Socialists seek to curtail opposition advantage

[Zorro]

Source: Reuters

Venezuela's ruling Socialists inaugurated a grassroots assembly on Tuesday in the same building as the national legislature in a further effort to minimize impact of an opposition election win that has shaken the government.

In the election this month, the Democratic Unity coalition won control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years, with a two-thirds majority giving it wide powers to challenge President Nicolas Maduro's administration.

But Maduro said he will refuse to sign the opposition's first priority when the new legislature starts on Jan. 5: an amnesty law for jailed activists.

The outgoing Socialist-controlled National Assembly is also pushing new appointments to the Supreme Court where any conflict of powers will play out.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-socialists-seek-curtail-opposition-advantage-025629015.html

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"...the government on Tuesday set up a new National Communal Parliament - to supervise the nation's patchwork of Socialist communities set up by late leader Hugo Chavez - in the same premises as the National Assembly."

Seems like a big "fuck you" by the government to the citizens of Venezuela.

[Archae]

1. Just like I thought they'd do.

Hysterics by Maduro to the military, and now this fake "congress."

We used to call right-wing banana republicans "El Presidente," it's long past time to call out Maduro and his corrupt cronies.

And none of this "oligarch/CIA/American spies and agitators" bullshit either.

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2. Show of hands: How many actually thought they would listen to the people?

Next up will be chaos in the streets

[iandhr]

3. If they did

I have the Brooklyn bridge to sell them.

[Marksman_91]

4. Is anyone at all surprised by this?

Better question, does anyone in this site even supports this? If so, you are not a friend of democracy.

[christx30]

5. There are people on this site that are still angry

that Maduro's people didn't win, and keep making comments decrying it, and saying that things are going to get worse for the people. Plenty of threads just after the election to show those people.
I'm not in that group. I can't imagine things getting worse. They are having to smuggle heavy ticket items like cooking oil just to not die. It's like the stories we always heard about the Soviet Union, in the 10 years before the Wall fell.