“We have a National Assembly!” said the head of State, noting on his Instagram account that the “sovereign, constitutional and legitimate National Assembly of Venezuela has been installed.”

In this regard, the president congratulated Jorge Rodríguez (president), Pedro Infante (first vice president) and América Pérez (second vice president) as the elected board of directors.

“I confirm that together with millions of women and men of the people I will be on January 10 complying with the Constitution and attending the legal call to be sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” he stressed.

“We will see you in the streets! Because we will win…”, he said.

The head of the Legislative Branch signed this Sunday during the installation of the Assembly the letter that he will send to the dignitary in which he ratifies the invitation to go to Parliament to be sworn in next Friday.

Rodríguez reaffirmed the invitation to the man who was elected President of the Bolivarian Republic in the elections of July 28, by “the votes of his people, the glorious women and men” of this country.

He affirmed that the triumph of Nicolás Maduro had the expertise of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which confirmed, in effect, the result that the Venezuelan people established, and was proclaimed by the only body established in the Constitution: the National Electoral Council (CNE).

The CNE proclaimed the victory of the reelected Venezuelan president with 51.95 percent of the votes, while his closest rival, the opposition member of the Democratic Unitary Platform, Edmundo González, obtained 43.18 percent of the counted ballots.

Regarding the announced intentions of the latter to come to be sworn in, the president of the Legislative Branch said that “they are lies, nonsense and history repeated as a tragicomedy.”

He stressed that this is a new attempt to undermine the foundations of peace in the Republic and to try to damage the institutionality “through a plan conceived as the enemies of peace have always tried.” He also warned some former Latin American presidents that if they travel to Venezuela without authorization they will be declared invaders.

The parliamentary head announced that next Tuesday the Parliament will declare former presidents Felipe Calderón, Vicente Fox, Mario Abdo Benítez, Jorge Quiroga and Mireya Moscoso, among others, “personas non grata.”

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