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Friday, 20 December 2024

Vote for me or...



MercoPress has a piece on plans by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to 'further democratize' his country. 


Maduro eyes Constitutional reform for Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday that he was planning a constitutional reform to further democratize his country in addition to empowering the citizenry and consolidating freedom and national sovereignty. “I have formed a team with great international and national advisors to think together with our people about a great constitutional reform that will further democratize Venezuelan society,” Maduro said.

“We are going toward a democratizing process in an expanded stage of the Venezuelan society, our process and project is to go to a great democratization of the institutional political, economic, social, cultural, and educational life of all Venezuela,” he went on while heralding more democratic processes in 2025 with the elections of governors, mayors, municipal councils, legislatures, and the National Assembly. “We are going to make a great democratizing dynamic,” he argued.


From the perspective of this outsider, the current democratic process is easily summed up as -

'Vote for Maduro or else.' 

Maybe this is to be extended  - 

'Vote for Maduro's candidate or else.'  

We'll see.

2 comments:

Sam Vega said...

What a meaningless confection of buzz-words, befitting a banana republic.

It reminds me of something, though - seems oddly familiar in tone. I just can't put my finger on it...

A K Haart said...

Sam - I know what you mean but it's elusive. Is there a country called Starmalia? Maybe something similar.