Venezuela’s National Assembly puts an end to the interim presidency of Juan Guaidó

Venezuela’s National Assembly has ended Juan Guaidó’s interim president mandate, following recent criticism received for failing to achieve the objectives envisaged by those who raised him in 2019.

The session of the National Assembly had been initially proposed for Thursday.

However, it was postponed to Jan. 3, “attending to the criteria of the members of the board of directors and deputies” to achieve a greater consensus.

With this decision, sectors of the Venezuelan opposition have put an end to the mandate of a Guaidó who in recent weeks had been criticized by some of the parties opposed to dictator Nicolás Maduro, considering that, after almost four years, he had not fulfilled the expected objectives.

The now former interim president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, has affirmed that with the decision of the National Assembly “the country has lost” and “celebrates the dictatorship”, assuring that “a leap into the void” has been made.

After six hours of intense debate in the session of the National Assembly, Guaidó has reiterated that the reason for the interim presidency “is constitutional and falls into the power vacuum in which there was in the country in January 2019”, as collected in a statement by the opposition legislative chamber itself.

“There is a majority that has made a decision, do not ask me to accompany it because I will never give an inch to the dictatorship. It is not an issue of Juan Guaidó; this is not the interim government of Juan Guaidó,” he reiterated.

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