Tension in the National Assembly of Venezuela: Chavez deputies elected Luis Parra, former member of the Primera Justicia party as president of the organization on Sunday, in a quick and brief debate that the hitherto president and opponent Juan Guaidó did not reach, held for hours by the Police around the Legislative Palace.
The Venezuelan opposition has called Parra's election a "blow to Parliament." Several countries, including the United States , have assured that they do not recognize the validity of this vote.
"Alert. Coup to parliament. Without votes or quorum deputies of the (official Socialist United Party of Venezuela) PSUV try to swear false directive," wrote the Guaidó team in the Twitter account of the National Assembly.
Previously, Guaidó denounced restrictions on access to the Parliament of Venezuela, where a session was planned in which he was going to seek to be re-elected as president of the only power controlled by the opposition in the Caribbean country.
The opposition leader of Nicolás Maduro and other deputies were retained outside the Assembly while both the official deputies and a small opposition group, crossed out as corrupt by the majority of those who are against the Government, were able to enter without problems
"It has never been like this," Guaidó said, in an exchange of words with an agent before the press, in front of a police picket around the Legislative Palace in downtown Caracas. Police and military closed the access to the building in a security operation, AFP journalists confirmed.
"What operation? Who ordered it? (...). It is the directive of the National Assembly that decides custody," said the legislative head, accompanied by other deputies.
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The National Press Workers' Union (SNTP) also denounced access restrictions to Parliament's headquarters.
After stopping the entrance of Guaidó to the Assembly, a colonel of the Bolivarian National Police addressed Guaidó and assured him that they do not seek to prohibit their entry nor are they "disrespecting them" but that they are "guaranteeing, but in order", their access to the building.
"The regime kidnaps and persecutes deputies, militarizes the Federal Legislative Palace, prohibits access and prevents the entry of the free press. There Venezuela is expressed: in the desire to change in the face of a dictatorship that continues to persecute. We remain firm and will not stop us" , Guaidó said in a message on Twitter.
Some deputies have been able to access Parliament, according to the official account of the same. In the case of Guaidó, it was not clear if he already entered.
The start of the session was scheduled at 11 am local time, but an hour later it had not yet started, reports TV Venezuela News.
The official Twitter account of the Assembly of Venezuela published a message that reads: “Given the impediments and blockages of the regime to enter the #Asa AssemblyVE, the Pdte (E) of Venezuela and the Parliament, @jguaido announced that the installation of the Board of Directors will happen so they have to meet in the middle of the street. ”
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From the headquarters of the National Assembly, Guaidó claimed on January 23 last year the presidency in charge of Venezuela with recognition of fifty countries, after the opposition majority of the chamber declared the socialist president Nicolás Maduro accusing him of accusing him of have been reelected fraudulently.
Reports of harassment in the early morning
The tension before the session scheduled for this Sunday was already recorded in the previous hours, when several Venezuelan opposition deputies denounced that at dawn they were harassed by security forces in the Caracas hotel where they were staying, hours before the session in which Parliament's directive will be voted and in which Juan Guaidó is expected to be re-elected.
The National Communications Center (CNC), which works with the Guaidó communications team, which almost 60 countries recognize as the interim president of Venezuela, reported in the early morning that it appeared in the hotel where the deputies were staying "a briefcase with supposed bomb appearance. "
The CNC accompanied his complaint on Twitter with some images in which you can see a small suitcase with a clock and from which some yellow wires come out.