Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament has rejected a state of emergency that President Nicolas Maduro decreed over a nation suffering from food shortages and a crumbling economy.
The National Assembly voted in favor of defying the decree, saying, “it deepens the severe disruption of constitutional and democratic order that Venezuela is suffering through.”
“This is a decree made to scare Venezuelans,” declared lawmaker Julio Borges during the congressional session, reports Deutsche Welle (DW). ”The only thing that interests the government is perpetuating its power.”
Nevertheless, the supreme court has the power to overrule parliament, as it has done with other decisions taken by lawmakers in Venezuela.
“Before the vote, [Maduro] accused the US of plotting an invasion of the politically-divided country, which is suffering the economic consequences of a dramatic fall in oil prices,” notes DW. “Maduro also claimed that the US military had flown a spy plane over Venezuela last week.”
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