Venezuelan opposition to support plan to seek OAS intervention against decree-laws

The Venezuelan opposition party Primero Justicia announced on Monday that it will support the initiative of the union and professional associations to collect signatures to endorse a request to the Organization of American States (OAS) to discuss in a plenary session the alteration of constitutional order in Venezuela by President Hugo Chávez after the enactment of 26 decree-laws that could be contrary to the Venezuelan Constitution. .

Elenis Rodríguez, a member of the direction of the Venezuelan national party, said that the signatures will not repeat the negative experiences of Tascón and Maisanta lists, since the forms with signatures will not be disclosed by the OAS. In February 2004, pro-government legislator Luis Tascón collected copies of signatures of petitioners for the recall referendum and published them on his website. After the publication, there were reports of government reprisals against people appearing in the list.

The promoters of the initiative will meet in the coming days to plan a symbolic occupation of squares in the country in order to raise support to seek OAS intervention.

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