Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-15-Speech-1-027"
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"en.20081215.13.1-027"2
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"Mr President, exactly one year ago the people of Venezuela voted in a referendum that Hugo Chávez should not extend his term of office as president, which is fixed under the Venezuelan constitution.
Well, Hugo Chávez has ignored the sovereign people’s democratic decision and has announced that he is going to change the law so as to remain in power.
Hugo Chávez has thus demonstrated once again that he is not a democratic president but an autocrat, a military dictator whose aim is to convert the whole of Venezuela into his own private ranch and thus to continue threatening, insulting and attacking his opponents and dissidents. He also intends to go on crushing freedom of expression by closing down the media, as he has done with Radio Caracas Televisión.
The European Parliament must strongly condemn and reject the tricks and subterfuges that Hugo Chávez wants to put into practice in order not to give up the presidency of the country. We urge Venezuelan society to uphold the values of democracy and freedom, which are the total opposite of what Hugo Chávez does and says."@en1
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