Imperialism Doesn’t Want the World to Know That the People Decide in Venezuela: Eekhout
A citizen votes in the second national referendum, Aug. 25, 2024. Photo: X/ @Jhonata66976537
August 26, 2024 Hour: 10:22 am
The awareness and organization of our people allow us to stand and not kneel, the Bolivarian legislator pointed out.
On Sunday, legislator Blanca Eekhout expressed that the consolidation of popular power is the path to strengthening participatory and protagonistic democracy in Venezuela.
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Referring to the Second National Popular Consultation on August 25, the president of the National Assembly’s Communal Development Commission emphasized that Venezuelans decide, execute, supervise, and guarantee the most critical local development projects to meet their needs. She also recalled that Commander Hugo Chavez stressed that every need should become a movement, and every movement should structure the people’s government at the territorial level.
“The imperialist war against Venezuela is carried out to prevent other nations from knowing that the people can govern and have the awareness and the right to become the protagonists of their history,” she said, noting that over 30,000 local development projects were proposed through assemblies.
“In the assemblies, people identify their needs and propose seven main projects. Then, those projects are taken to a territorial voting process to choose the one that will be prioritized,” Eekhout said, recalling that this dynamic of participation was observed on August 25 when Venezuelans mobilized to defend their rights despite persistent rains in some states.
The Bolivarian legislator pointed out that democratic processes in other countries are limited to elections every five or six years, resulting in a delegation of sovereignty that almost never allows for the expression of communities’ needs, interests, and struggles.
“President Nicolas Maduro took a chance with the people. That is a legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez and is part of what Simon Bolivar’s project means: that the people exercise their absolute will. In the most challenging times, Chavez and Maduro called on the people to achieve peace. Maduro also trusted the communities to overcome shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said.
“Commune or nothing. The people are the repository of the power that makes us independent. The people make the change in the governance system irreversible. This confirms the solidity of our democracy,” Eekhout assessed.
“The Venezuelan people’s awareness and organization is an example for the world. It confirms that we can stand tall and not kneel. It shows that we can have working-class presidents and not banker presidents,” she added, announcing that the National Assembly will continue reforming popular power laws.
“We will soon reform the Commune Act to bring it in line with new realities, to face the challenges of the imperialist hybrid war, and to reflect the experience gained in transforming the old bourgeois representative democracy into a true, protagonistic, just, and dignified direct democracy,” the Bolivarian legislator stressed.
teleSUR/ JF Source: teleSUR
