1. The right wing won a majority in the National Assembly in December 2015.
2. Its principal objective since taking its seats in Parliament has been to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro.
3. To do this, the right wing took FOUR months debating what should be the method to remove the President, considering at the least, the following:
- Demanding his resignation
- Putting him on trial
- Declaring him mentally incapable
- Nullifying his election because he is Colombian
- Adding to or changing the constitution to reduce his period in office
- Applying social pressure from the streets
- Calling a Referendum to revoke the Presidency
4. Recently, towards the end of April, they decided to open the process of demanding a revocation.
To activate the mechanism in April, and not in January which was when half of the Presidential period in office had been reached, the right-wing did not leave themselves the time to undertake the revocation process in 2016, given that the period established by the law for this procedure is more than 260 days.
Carrying out this referendum in 2017 implies that if successful, whoever completes the remaining period of office of the then ex-president will be his executive vice president, that is a ‘Chavista’, who will complete the period of office until the end of 2019.
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