Nicolas Maduro: Possession of Hugo Chavez is deferrable

Nicolas Maduro

The vice president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said he received a “direct call” from the country’s president, Hugo Chavez, who spoke for 20 minutes to say he’s exercising and walking and also gave “a set of work orders.”

Yesterday, shortly before midnight Maduro stated through a telephone link with the state channel Venezolana de Television, that the ruler of the country entrusted him “to greet all the people of Venezuela, especially children” on the day of Jesus birth.

Maduro stated that this is the first occasion on which the Vice President confirmed talking to the president. “According to what he told me in a conversation that we had about 20 minutes, he was walking, doing exercises that are part of his daily treatment,” he also added that the chancellor also, assured that Chavez said several times that “it was pretty cold in La Habana. ”

Finally the Chavez regime in Venezuela and the opposition agreed on Monday that it is possible to delay the inauguration of President Hugo Chavez, set by the Constitution for the Jan. 10, if by then Chavez still remains in Cuba recovering from cancer surgery. “The Constitution is very clear; the President is currently making use of a constitutional permission, approved unanimously by the National Assembly, to meet their health situation. If that permission (…) will have to extend after the Jan. 10-day, scheduled to take office, it would activate the Constitution and will probably have to take the oath in the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ)“, said vice president Nicolas Maduro.