The Parliament’s Domestic Policy Committee of Venezuela -controlled by chavismo– prepares a bill against “traitors to the country” recently proposed by the president of the Legislature, the ruling party Jorge Rodriguez.
Deputy God given hairpresident of that commission, said this Wednesday that a team “is already working” on the development of this project, based – he explained – on article 130 of the Constitution, which establishes “the duty to honor and defend the country” and to “protect sovereignty, nationality, territorial integrity, self-determination and the interests of the nation.”
In your weekly program ‘With the hammer giving’broadcast on the state channel VTV, the ruler’s also first vice president United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) He indicated that, previously, he met with other members of the Policy Commission Interior to review “the jurisprudence on treason” in other countries.
Cabello, considered Chavismo’s number two, did not offer further details about the progress of the development of this project or when they plan to present it.
In March, Rodríguez proposed creating a law so that “crimes against sovereignty” be “severely punished,” according to a note from Parliament, which notes that the president of the Legislature mentioned the “stateless position adopted by members of the extreme right” against the referendum held in December on the controversy with Guyana over the territory of Essequibo.
Likewise, he said that the “traitors” – without specifying names – have “called for invasions, violence” and “the assassination of the president of the republic.” Nicolas Maduro.
The authorities claim to have deactivated, in recent months, a series of conspiracies that aimed to attack “the senior leadership” of Chavismo and generate an “environment of political violence” in the face of the presidential elections on July 28, in those in which Maduro will seek his second re-election.
On Tuesday, the Government presented to the Legislature the ‘bill against fascism, neo-fascism and similar expressions’, prepared by order of the head of state. EFE (I)
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