Venezuelan Right Wing Proposes Unpopular Initiatives in Parliament

source Prensa Latina 

The National Assembly of Venezuela (NA), now with opposition majority, today launches its first sessions of the year in which the right-wing alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable presented unpopular initiatives.Yesterday, after installing the new parliament (2016-2021), its president, veteran deputy of Democratic Action, Henry Ramos Allup, said the change proclaimed will not be only a name, but the essence of his first one year term.

In presenting the legislative agenda, read by Deputy Julio Borges (from Primero Justicia), in a clear violation of the internal rules and debates of the Assembly, intentions to remove the current government, to privatize national companies and to preserve economic interests of the bourgeoisie were appreciated.

Ramos Allup also presented yesterday the commissions that will announce the results of the installation ceremony of the legislature to the public powers (executive, judicial, electoral and moral).
He also swore in Enrique Marquez (A New Time) and José Calzadilla (Progressive Movement of Venezuela), who assumed as first and second vice presidents, respectively.

Being 73 years old and a parliamentarian since 1980, Ramos Allup is the maximum leader of the right-wing party Democratic Action (AD, in Spanish), linked during the Fourth Republic (1958-1999) with the repressive actions of the government against the people.

He defended the neoliberal package of the International Monetary Fund in 1989, which plunged Venezuela into a deep economic and social crisis, and made basic services such as transport, fuel and the basic food basket even more expensive.

In addition, in 1992 he requested the suspension of constitutional guarantees, stipulating measures such as the arrest of any citizen without a warrant, and banning freedom of expression, reunion or demonstration.

After the elections of December 6, in which the opposition won a legislative majority, Ramos Allup declared to favor the privatization of crucial companies that had been nationalized by the state, including Petroleos de Venezuela, the Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela, the National Electricity Corporation and the Steel Corporation of Orinoco.

He also declared his intention to repeal legislation such as the Law on Land and Agricultural Development, the organic laws of Labour and Fair Prices, as well as those of communal and housing.

At the ceremony of installation of the NA, Ramos Allup told reporters that another priority will be an amnesty law to set free people he called political prisoners, including Leopoldo López (People's Will), main promoter of violent events in 2014 with a balance of 43 people dead and over 800 wounded.

He also declared to favor the release from prison of former mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma; the former mayor of San Cristobal (Táchira) Daniel Ceballos and former governor of the state of Zulia, Manuel Rosales, all linked to destabilizing plans against the South American country.

Facing these threats, the head of the branch of the Great Patriotic Pole, Hector Rodríguez, told Prensa Latina that from the parliamentary core the 54 deputies within that block will struggle as needed to defend social achievements in revolution.

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