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| Padrino Lopez: FAN reiterates that it will not recognize a "parallel government" |
| 2019-01-25 |
| [ELUNIVERSAL] The Minister for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, said on Thursday that the FAN recognizes only Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela. The declaration comes from the Simón Bolívar room of the Ministry for Defense, in the Fort Tiuna Military Complex, Caracas. The minister said that the FAN does not recognize any "parallel government" to that of "legitimate president Nicolás Maduro". He also noted that "the FANB is here to avoid at all costs a confrontation between Venezuelans, it is not a war between brothers that will solve the problems, it is through dialogue, we will not do anything outside the Constitution." These statements come one day after the head of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, was sworn in as president in charge of Venezuela, a fact that received the support of the United States and several countries of the international community. Through a statement, the FAN ratified on Thursday its recognition of Nicolás Maduro as the "only legitimate and constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela." "As we stated in a solemn, public and notorious act on January 10, 2019, we recognize as legitimate President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, our Commander in Chief, the citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros, who was elected by the great majority of the voters, in free, universal, direct and secret elections, held on May 20, 2018 ", remarked the text released by Padrino López. |
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