Jorge Rodríguez: Communes must be the country's form of political and territorial organization

Published at: 23/10/2024 05:24 PM

The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, ruled that “the change we have to achieve, the form of organization of the territory must be the communes, the communal councils, and that the positions of popular election be elected from the territorial political organization”.

This was stated in the Unión parish, in the Crespo municipality of Lara state, during the deployment for public consultation of electoral laws, where he stressed that in the current legislative process, there is a profound reform of the Law of Communes, which lays the foundations for communes to make their decisions and to have a truly participatory budget consulted by the people.

He reported that before December 15, 2024 they will be completely renovated. “We must talk about the issue of parity, of proportionality, of representation. We also have to talk about the consultations with the People's Power and talk about the territorial political organization,” he said.

He also mentioned the laws that have been approved and others under debate for reform: The Law of Communal Councils, the Law of the Social Comptroller, the Law of Popular Power, the Law of Popular Communication, the Law of Popular Planning, the Special Jurisdiction of Justice and Peace and the New Community Economy System, which seeks to insert communes into the banking, financial system, directly.

Rodríguez lamented that even today, the constituted power makes use of mayors and governorates and other positions of popular office, which is the current bourgeois state, “which we are dragging since the colony”.

“I think that this consultation process, convened by President Maduro, in the laws of Popular Power, represents the need for a change in the brain and the ways of seeing things,” he urged, in the sense that the figure of parishes has already passed into the history of a colonial model that has already expired.

He recalled that Commander Hugo Chávez entrusted, in 2012, to the current President Maduro, that the mandate be the communes. “It's that simple. As if they were our own lives,” Rodriguez paraphrased.

The commune is Commander Chávez's main contribution to the discussion about socialism and capitalism, he reiterated.

Capitalism, he warned, is to blame for two of the great catastrophes currently threatening humanity, “poverty and the emergency due to climate change. And the only way to end poverty and protect the planet is the socialist system of social justice and equity, and Chávez was very clear about it.”

Rodríguez commented that, perhaps for this stage, the new Communal State cannot yet be established, but with the national consultation of the laws of the organized People, currently in process, the objective will be achieved in the short term.

“For the next phase, the territorial political unit of the Republic ceases to be parishes and communes throughout Venezuela. So whatever you have to say, you are the ones who make the laws of People's Power,” he said.

For her part, the president of the Commission of Communes of the AN, deputy Blanca Eeckout, assured that the laws approved and those that are under reform, allow the organization of the communes to make the Citizens Assembly the decision-making space where participatory democracy is rescued and from each Citizens Assembly the rest of the instances emanate.

Mazo News Team