During the installation session of this new legislative term, the Venezuelan Deputies ratified Jorge Rodriguez as the Assembly's President, as well as the assembly's board for this term. teleSUR
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00:00The National Assembly of Venezuela inaugurated its new session corresponding to the 2025-2026
00:04term and ratifies its authorities for the legislative year to come. During the installation
00:09session of the new legislative term, the Venezuelan deputies ratified Jorge RodrĂguez as the Assembly's
00:15president as well as the Assembly's board for this term, including Pedro Infante as first vice
00:20president of the Assembly and América Pérez as second vice president, along with other authorities.
00:26The proposals were brought to the legislature, voted on, and then the approved members were
00:31swearing in for their functions. The first task to be assumed by the Venezuelan legislature after
00:37this installation will be to swear in President Nicolás Maduro on January 10 following his victory
00:43in the elections of July 28, 2024.
00:46Nicolás Maduro Moros, Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
01:02Your Office.
01:04Dear President, Please accept my warmest greetings. It is a pleasure to address you
01:09on this occasion to reiterate the invitation for you, as the presidential candidate elected
01:15on July 28, 2024, to take possession and duly swear in the office of President of the Bolivarian
01:23Republic of Venezuela for the constitutional period 2025 to 2031. Are you going to tell him when?
01:35January 10, 2025, at 12 noon.
01:40The President of the National Assembly affirmed that any invading foreigner who
01:44tries to enter Venezuelan territory illegally will be treated as a criminal.
01:54If a foreigner enters the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela without the
01:59proper authorization of the institutions properly qualified for this, that will be considered as an
02:05act of invasion, and as invaders any foreigner who tries to illegally enter the territory of
02:11the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will be treated as an invader. Venezuela is respected.
02:18We are respectful of international law.
02:20The Deputy of the National Assembly, Tania DĂaz, highlighted the responsibilities of
02:28the executive in view of the new presidential term that will begin on January 10.
02:38We have a great responsibility, this National Assembly, because next January 10, in this hall,
02:45we have again to win in Venezuela another chapter of history.
02:49Next January 10, we, deputies and deputies, are going to receive here the winner,
02:55as our Western Secretary likes to say, the continental leader, who today has the courage
03:01to stand up to the world and take Venezuela where it belongs, to the vanguard of the people's
03:05struggles against fascism, against ignominy, against hatred, against violence.
03:11On the other hand, Deputy Ricardo Molina remarked the front of the Bolivarian fury
03:18that continues to stand up in defense of the people of Venezuela.
03:24And in the face of threats emulating our dear brother, Diosdado Cabello,
03:29I would say, Rondon has not fought. And you do not understand what Bolivarian fury is.
03:36Do not put it to the test. We are ready for whatever comes, where it comes, when it comes
03:41and with whom it comes, to continue defending and building the Bolivarian revolution.
03:46I think you understood it. And I think you are going to take that message to others who are
03:51outside, who still do not understand why our revolution is unrivaled.
03:56Let's go over some details on who the new president of the National Assembly,
04:01not the new, the reiterated president of the National Assembly of Venezuela is. Jorge RodrĂguez
04:05is a psychiatrist and a politician who has had different positions, government positions,
04:10during Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro's government. He began his political career as
04:14leader of a student movement at the Central University of Venezuela and later president
04:19of the Student Center at the Luis Racetti Medical School. He was appointed president
04:23of the National Electoral Council in 2005. Three years later, he became vice president of Venezuela.
04:28In 2008, RodrĂguez was elected mayor of Caracas, a position he held until 2017.
04:34Leading the Ministry of Communication and Information in 2020, he was elected as
04:38deputy to the National Assembly and became president of the legislative branch in 2021.
04:47Now a couple things you may need to know about Venezuela's re-elected National Assembly first
04:52president, Pedro Infantes. Pedro Infante Aparicio is a political activist,
04:58organizing vice president for Venezuela's United Socialist Party. He is part of the Victims
05:03Commission and of the Special Commission to Investigate Crimes Against Venezuelan Migrants
05:08Abroad. He is a member of the Parliament's Permanent Commission for Internal Policies
05:12and also a member of the Parliamentary Special Commission appointed to investigate
05:15infamous statements by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump against Venezuela.
05:22And now let's see who is this newly elected second vice president of Venezuela's National
05:28Assembly, Ms. America PĂ©rez. Congresswoman America PĂ©rez was commissioner of Venezuela's
05:34United Socialist Party Youth Branch in the state of Nueva Espada. She is a member of the Permanent
05:41Economy, Finance and National Development Parliamentary Commission and member of
05:45Venezuela Parliamentary Friendship Groups with Japan, India, Switzerland and Azerbaijan.
05:50PĂ©rez was ratified as second vice president of the legislative branch
05:53this Sunday, January 5, for the 2025-2026 tenure.