The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, said that the proposal made by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez for an Amnesty Law, is expected to be broad enough so that all sectors of national life who committed acts of violence can be released and regain their right to political participation, provided they are not involved in serious crimes:
“All sectors of national life who are not involved in serious crimes will be included in this law. We also aspire to reach sufficient consensus for the law to be approved in the National Assembly,” informed the parliamentary leader at a press conference after meetings with opposition representatives from right-wing parties as part of the Program for Peace and Democratic Coexistence.
He indicated that the idea is to determine the points of agreement, the areas where consensus is needed to move forward, and what differences are in this process, which began today, compared to those already tested in Venezuela in previous years, such as the amnesties offered by Commander Chávez and constitutional president Nicolás Maduro, “In order to, definitively, move forward already, and as the Acting President said, to take a step forward and leave everything established in common proposals for the normalization of the country’s political life.”
He recalled that this initiative by the Acting President of the Republic is in full development, and announced that he would hold another meeting tonight to evaluate the scope of the proposed initiative and estimate “when we will take it to the National Assembly for it to give the first discussion; that will be very, very soon.”
True dialogue:
Deputy Jorge Rodríguez reflected on the leadership of the opposition political sector, and recalled that they are abroad because they excluded themselves by calling for invasions and bombings, coups, blockades, and war against their own nation.
“Regarding the scope of what is here, this is the only limit we will set: if you called for that invasion, if some are boasting about and celebrating the attack against the capital of the Republic and other areas of the country on January 3, if you habitually call for the use of force and violence to subvert the constitutional order of the Republic, then really, under those circumstances, what kind of dialogue is possible? If that is simply the antithesis of dialogue; it is promoting division among Venezuelans.”
He reiterated that dialogue is not about inciting violence or calling on foreign powers to attack and bomb the nation’s own territory: “The dialogue is the true one, the dialogue that allows us to build proposals for early victories, social, cultural, economic, and political issues, and a roadmap where all of us may have sufficient guarantees of political participation.”