The Venezuelan opposition, which holds a parliamentary majority, will push for proceedings against President Nicolas Maduro to determine responsibility for what it considers to be a "rupture" of the constitutional order, the head of the group, Julio Borges, announced Sunday.
Borges said that the National Assembly was assuming its responsibility to "restore democracy," which the Venezuelan opposition says was violated by Maduro with a "coup d'etat" by suspending the procedure to implement a referendum - preparations for which have been under way for months - to recall him.
"All this is being done in the name of the people who elected us, in the name of 14 million people who gave us their votes," said the opposition lawmaker.
On Sunday in an extraordinary session, the Venezuelan legislature approved an agreement declaring the president, along with the judicial and electoral authorities, to have broken the legal constitutional order.
Among the measures under consideration and to be discussed at the extension of the session on Tuesday, the chamber agreed to launch a process to determine Maduro's constitutional status.
Opposition lawmakers claim that Maduro may hold "double nationality" and that "well-founded reasons" exist to look into the president's abdication of his responsibilities.
Meanwhile, dozens of supporters of Maduro's Chavista government burst into the National Assembly on Sunday while legislators were discussing how to potentially bring about Maduro's ouster.
While the first vice president of the congress, opposition lawmaker Enrique Marquez, was speaking, a number of men and women, some of them wearing the Chavista color red, began filing into the chamber carrying photographs of Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar and the Venezuelan flag.
Shouting "The united people will never be defeated," the protesters managed to get by the four checkpoints, two of them manned by the military, that block entry into the chamber.
Once inside the chamber, a shoving match broke out between on-site security personnel and the Chavistas.
The head of the government lawmakers, Hector Rodriguez, tried to keep the Chavistas under control, although they gradually withdrew from the chamber.
During the brouhaha, the president of the Assembly, opposition lawmaker Henry Ramos Allup, suspended debate for half an hour, but then resumed it after ordering the expulsion of all people except legislators, journalists and ordinary members of the public.
At least two people were injured during the melee.
Source: EFE
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