“A red rose will shine in the seat of representative Cilia Flores de Maduro as long as she does not return to the Venezuelan parliament after her kidnapping by the government of Donald Trump,” said the re-elected president of the Venezuelan parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, during the opening session of the new legislative period.
«There is a seat in this Assembly that is empty and corresponds to Cilia Flores de Maduro. While we search and manage to recover her, please know that we are indebted to her for her bravery. We will do everything possible to have her back with all of us,” said Jorge Rodríguez in his words after being sworn in again as president of the National Assembly.
The president of parliament joined in the words of solidarity and tribute to the fallen that were made during the session. “May the tears become strength and certainty that we will be able to build peace,” he expressed.
“Even,” he added, “with the greatest of obstacles, the desire for our country to prosper should not be stopped,” he said after ensuring that he will work tirelessly to bring President Nicolás Maduro back to Venezuela.
Rodríguez indicated that his main function as a deputy will be to resort to all procedures, all platforms and all spaces to bring back President Nicolás Maduro Moros.
He called for the union of Venezuelans, for respect for Venezuelan life and for national identity. “These are hours to strengthen ourselves in who we are, to consolidate our deepest values that our liberating fathers bequeathed to us.”
He also highlighted that from this territory “a soldier has never left to subjugate another territory, on the contrary, our barefoot llaneros, our patriots, left the hand of Simón Bolívar, in search of freedom, we have never sought war, we are a peace-loving people.
Rodríguez told the deputies that in unity they will have to work for the consolidation of peace, “but not that of the cemeteries, of the kneeling, of the silent and subjugated, but the only one we know, the peace of freedom and life, hope, the peace that we protect for our sacred territory,” he expressed.
He called on the opposition that is part of the National Assembly to dialogue as a symbol of greatness. “Let us not disdain the opportunity to together build political proposals,” he said while warning that he will not allow the shouting of disrespectful slogans. “It’s not time for shows and I will allow it,” he said.
“These are times to meet, to lend a hand, because anything that comes from outside will always be worse,” he said.
Along with Jorge Rodríguez, deputy Pedro Infante also repeats as first vice president of the National Assembly on the board, while deputy Grecia Colmenares was elected as second vice president.
