The Venezuelan bishops have implored the government and the army to accept the defeat of the ruling party in mid-term parliamentary elections last month, writes Isabel de Bertodano.
President Nicolás Maduro has said he will not allow “the counter-revolutionary right” to take over the running of the national assembly. “We will not let it,” he declared.
In a statement published just before Christmas the bishops warned the government: “You cannot hinder [the installation of the new assembly], much less prevent it.” They appealed for policies which “attend to the most needy to avoid the risk of a backlash from a population suffering shortages, insecurity and government inefficiency, evils we have experienced for many years”.
At the election a coalition of opposition parties won a two-thirds majority in the national assembly.
29 December 2015, The Tablet
President vows to oppose newly elected assembly
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