Resolution on Venezuela

By the Catalan Group of Liberal International

During the next months a new electoral process will be developed in the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela. This time the process will bring a reform of the Constitution. If approved, this reform will modify the concepts and fundamental principles of the Constitution, including the very structure of the Venezuelan State, and turn it into a “Socialist State”. The most damaging aspects of the proposal are the following ones:

• Increase of power held by the President of the Republic of Venezuela.
• Alarming modification of the territorial, political, administrative, economic, and social structure of the state.
• Great institutionalization of the ideological and military power of the State, to be used by the President at his discretion.
• An irregular and distrusted electoral system.

For this reason the Liberal International:

1. Demands the Government of Venezuela to make all constitutional reforms compatible with democratic values, principles and guarantees and to cease the violation of Human Rights in any case.
2. Demands the Government of Venezuela to observe the universal principle of Freedom of Vote.
3. Demands the appropriate international bodies to observe civil liberties and human rights, with special emphasis on the freedom to vote in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.