Comentarios Constitucionales Sobre Una Transición a la Democracia Que No Fue - Paperback

by Allan R. Brewer-Carías (Author)

This book is a compilation of all the studies written between 2019 and 2023 by professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, regardinng the process of transition towards democracy initiated in Venezuela in January 2019, after the National Assembly electede in 2015 declared unexistent the illegitimate the relection of Nicolas Maduro as President of the Republic that took place on May 2018. Because that decisión which received extended International support, in absence of a legitimately elected President that could take office for the term 2019-2025, following constitutional provisions, the President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, assumed as Interim President, being recognized as such by many countries, among them the United States and the United Kingdom. On Febriuary 2019 a Transition Statute towards democracy and for the restauration of the Constitution was approved, governing the actions of the Interim Government mainly for the protections of Venezuelan assets abroad. The Transition Statute was reformed in three ocasions, the last of which in January 2023, eliminating the Interim Government and establishing a sort of "parliamentary government" that does not conform to the constitutional tradition of the country, assigning a parliamentary "council" the protection os foreign assets.