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| Leader of Venezuela opposition-run congress says prepared to assume presidency |
| 2019-01-12 |
| [PRESSTV] The leader of Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly says he is prepared to take on the South American country’s presidency on an interim basis and call elections, only a day after socialist President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a disputed second mandate. Juan Guaido, 35, a politician from the hard-line Popular Will opposition party and an arch foe of Maduro, made the remarks at an anti-government rally in front of the headquarters of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Development Program (UNDP) in the capital Caracas on Friday. The rally was a rare and potentially destabilizing challenge to some 20 years of Bolivarian rule, as hundreds of his energized supporters were chanting "Guaido for president!" and "Out with Maduro!" "I assume the duty imposed by the Constitution and Article 333, which obliges all Venezuelans, vested with authority or not, to fight for the restitution of constitutional order," Guaido said, calling his strongly-worded speech as his "declaration to the Venezuelan people." |
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