The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asked Parliament this Saturday to approve “very quickly” the law against fascism, neo-fascism and hate crimes, which contemplates, among other things, sanctioning those who promote acts of “violence” in the country, a product of “intolerance.”

“We are facing a malevolent, fascist people. Do you understand well what fascism is? It is hatred, intolerance, turned into violence,” Maduro said in reference to the largest opposition coalition, at the end of a demonstration in which his supporters and state officials supported the “victory” of the president in the presidential elections, a triumph questioned inside and outside the country.

In addition, he pointed out that if the Government had not “defeated on Monday, July 29” the anti-chavist mobilizations against the official result of the elections, which the authorities described as “violent” and led by opposition politicians, “on Tuesday 30, they would have gone to kill more than one” of those present at the event.

“That’s why I support with all my strength what the people are doing with the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) and I ask that it be approved very quickly (the law) against fascism, neo-fascism and hate crimes,” he added.

In the activity, broadcast by the VTV channel, the president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, said that he has heard “a violent extremist,” a person, whose name he did not pronounce, who – he assured – “only wants hatred between Venezuelans and Venezuelans” so – he stressed – its “end” arrives.

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“This is your ending, sayona (as some Chavistas call María Corina Machado). And these laws that we are discussing are to provide tools for the people of Venezuela to fight a scourge (…). With fascism nothing, with fascism it is not negotiated, fascism is confronted, fascism is defeated, fascism is annihilated and extinguished,” Rodríguez said.

In this sense, the deputy – who did not specify when or where he had heard the “extremist” or what were the words of “violence” to which he referred – said that it is being discussed throughout the country what will be “the contributions” of the bill against fascism, so that “nothing escapes” in this fight.

According to the NGO Provea, the bill against fascism “adds to a series of arbitrary regulations that seek to close the civic space, silence critical sectors and legitimize persecutory practices by the Venezuelan State.”

On Tuesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, urged the authorities of the Caribbean country not to approve “laws that undermin the civic and democratic space of the country,” among which he mentioned the law against fascism and the law against NGOs, which was already approved this week.

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