2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Election event
also: January 5th, 2020, AN political party, AN leadership vote, 2020 vote for the AN president
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National Assembly (Venezuela)organization · 12Luis Parraperson · 9Francisco Rodriguezperson · 4Delcy Rodríguezperson · 4G4 Coalitionorganization · 2Juan Guaidóperson · 2Nicolás Maduroperson · 2William Davilaperson · 1
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Talking about the momentum that was addressed on January 5th, 2020, when Guaido's term as president of Venezuelan's National Assembly was set to expire. Considering he based his entire claim to being the president as his role as part of the…
▶ 18:30
of the political party that supposedly put him in that position, he was going to be on significantly shaky grounds. The scenes that emerged from the January 5th vote for the AN political party were some of the most infamous of the entire Ju…
▶ 20:22
It's important here to understand the rules and numbers of how Venezuela's legislature worked. In 2020, the National Assembly consisted of 167 lawmakers and required an 84-person quorum to carry out its function. To secure the AN presidency…
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Seeing as Parra announced his candidacy mere minutes before the scheduled vote, however, Guaido did not have time to make the temperature of his peers or whip up support for his own leadership. Of course, simply refusing to show up for the …
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as warring lawmakers exchanged charged words and resorted to physical blows. Parra declared victory amid the mayhem, claiming he had secured 81 of the 150 votes cast. Parra's swearing in was less than ceremonial. As he raised a hand and mad…
▶ 24:16
Parra's promise to uphold his civic duties were drowned out by the chaos. Though Guaido's attempt to prevent the vote was unsuccessful, his degrading show at the fence achieved a more important objective. Below are samples of the foreign me…
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G4 coalition, so he was even losing support among his own opposition leaders in Venezuela. Yet, as is customary with Venezuela politics, the AN leadership vote was a complicated affair. Opposition analyst Francisco Rodriguez produced a thor…
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declared victory. He did not provide attendance records to certify his claim to the AN presidency. Rodriguez thus determined that since no roll call vote was taken, the vote was by a show of hands only. There was no direct way to verify the…
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Guaido and his allies capitalized on this sloppiness of the vote within minutes of its conclusion, accusing Parra of collaborating with Maduro and his party to carry out a parliamentary coup against the Venezuelan opposition bloc. But Parra…
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who were only authorized to vote in the event that their principal member was absent. So an unauthorized meeting, not in the legislature. Rodriguez broke through the confusion by analyzing both vote counts to determine who would have won th…
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Rodriguez said that he estimated under normal conditions, not when they're having knock down, drag out brawls in the legislature, Guaido would have won reelection of the National Assembly by an 86 vote to Parra's 71. However, he noted that …
▶ 29:08
So no matter what, he wouldn't have won. The 2020 vote for the AN president left Venezuelans' opposition permanently disfigured. Following the events of January 5th, 2020, contradictions between its competing factions were on permanent disp…