Statement by the Citizen Power
The referendum processes of Venezuela doesn’t need lessons from any foreign country

The president of the Citizen Power, Isaias Rodriguez, values the intervention of the President of the United States, George Bush, in the Summit of Monterrey, in Mexico, as a dismissal of the recent declarations given by the National Security Advisor of his government, Condolezza Rice and, in this sense, according to the attributions conffered by the article 274 of the Constitution and in name of this Institution expresses the following:

1)        The different types of referenda established in the Venezuelan legal ordering are contained in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and none of them depends, as suggested by the National Security Advisor, of the will or consent of any personality of Venezuela, no matter how influential he or she is.

2)        The referenda processes are constitutional rights of the Venezuelans and this rights are exert in a collective way and the Venezuelans do not need pressures, or lessons from any foreign country.

3)        Both the Constitution and the Organic Law of the Electoral Power, clearly establish the autonomy of the National Electoral Council, and this is considered as an an independent Public Power, to organize, direct, administer and supervise the requests for recall for any type of referenda and for that reason, the authorities of the Electoral Power, are the ones among the constitutional and legal regime, who must act in these processes, “without interferences or restrictions”, as it was negatively tried to be portrait by the the National Security Advisor.

4)        The results of the eventual realization of any referenda, recall process or process of any nature, will be accepted by all civic citizens in our country and, especially, by the Public Powers of the country and by the social organizations of participation, without of external manipulation, or international interferences that damage the good relations between the States and consequently affect the sovereignty of Venezuela.

5)        The referenda processes are processes that involve the dignity and freedom of the Venezuelan people, and foreign governments should not have any pretext to interfere in decisions that are of the exclusive and absolute matter of Venezuelans.

6)        In this sense, we exhort spokeman/spokeswomen of foreign countries to avoid making any comment, no matter how beneficial it is, about our internal electoral processes, because instead of helping in the development those processes they could generate diatribes and internal debates, complicate them and increase the natural tension they produce to the country. Consecuently, the Citizen Power solicits, that no-one interffers in the functions of the Electoral Power, in its character of maximum comicial organism of the country and that its referre rol is respected.

7)        The referenda process is a constitutional alternative absolutely Venezuelan that demands sovereignty in its actions and which is only subject to the institutions and the civic behavior of the citizens, circumstances that within the Constitutional and legal frame guarantee the proper functioning of democracy and the real will of the people.