The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, leads the first Plenary Meeting of the Federal Council of Government 2025, from the Ezequiel Zamora Hall of the Miraflores presidential complex. The Head of Government pointed out the importance of institutionality for the construction of democracy. teleSUR
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01:26It was a day of popular consultation to elect justices of the communal peace.
01:35We have persevered in the path of this Constitution, and year after year we have seen each other's
01:46faces.
01:49In the start of the month of January, if we reviewed thoroughly the effort that has been
02:06carried out from the Federal Council of Government in the last six years, we could write the
02:13political, economic, and social history of the Venezuela of these times we are living
02:20in, because we went through years of threats that were tough, of aggressions, constant
02:33aggressions.
02:35During these years, we saw the resources of the country vanish.
02:43We saw economic aggressions affecting the social sector of the republic, and the income
02:57reduced significantly.
03:02With the favor of God and the wisdom of this Constitution, we knew how to fix things and
03:09resist and move forward as we are doing it right now, step by step, little by little
03:17bit by bit, focusing on the strengthening of the democracy of the institution and addressing
03:28the necessities of the people.
03:30Every year has to be better than the previous one.
03:35I have been repeating a phrase of the great liberator of the eastern bayonet of Uruguay,
03:47José Ignacio Antiga, that is perfect for these historic times humanity is living.
03:58Let's not expect anything else but from ourselves, and yourselves, women, let's not expect anything
04:09but from ourselves.
04:11A journalist asked me yesterday, do you believe that such government is going to respect Venezuela?
04:22And I answered with my opinion, if you don't demand respect, you are not respected.
04:30You must demand respect in the world.
04:37The one that is disrespected is the one who allows it.
04:42I learned that in the neighborhoods of Caracas and in the working movement, we need to demand
04:54respect in the first place.
04:57Let's not expect anything else but from ourselves.
05:02Let's not expect anyone to disrespect us.
05:07Let's demand respect.
05:09And I've been complementing this with a way of thinking that has a great validity, as
05:21is the figure of this historic character, as great as in its creation.
05:39Today we create, or today we make a mistake.
05:45It is so simple to describe the historic time that Simón Rodríguez had to live in,
05:54and he said it at the right time, starting with the period of what was the first independence
06:01that was betrayed and stabbed from inside for all the oligarchies.
06:11Or we invent, or we make a mistake.
06:16And those who invented power didn't invent, they copied, they subordinated, and gave their
06:26lands of a revolution that was headed by a great liberator, Simón Bolívar, the Mariscal
06:32Mayacucho, the great general of freedom, Rafael Doneta, they gave it to a new colonial.
06:43The marvelous formula of true independence is to create our own paths.
06:51No one is going to write a manual of the path that Venezuela must walk, today or tomorrow.
07:01We should write our own history, or other people are going to write it.
07:06We need to choose a free people or a slave people, a colony or independence, or we invent
07:21or we make a mistake.
07:23And I can say, Simón Rodríguez, wherever you are, we have followed your path, and the
07:33country has been able to invent and reinvent its formulas to rebuild itself and restart
07:43itself.
07:50And if we take from the 19th century, Simón Rodríguez, and our great liberator, José
07:57Gervasio Ortiga, liberator of the Easter ban of Uruguay, but he's our liberator of South
08:03America.
08:07We also must add, as we have been adding, the way of thinking of ourselves.
08:13We have our own way of thinking.
08:16We don't need to look for it anywhere else.
08:20We have our people who think inspired by their own reality, in a concept that has relation
08:32with our reality, our past, our present, our future.
08:36And there we go, Aquiles Nasoa, this year, 50 years are commemorated, Diosdado, fellow
08:46mate for your program, this year we commemorate 50 years of the great poem of Credo de Aquiles
08:57Nasoa.
08:5850 years, do you know?
09:07He was from Caracas, from Guadalajara neighborhood.
09:13And there, he, among so many marvelous formulas, as poets say, so many metaphors and ways of
09:27drawing reality, he creates his poem, inspired by the Catholic Church, I Believe in God and
09:42Jesus Christ, inspired by the Catholic Church.
09:46He said, I believe in the powers that create the people.
09:52And by believing in the powers that create the people, is that we are here, standing
09:58up and ready to continue with this way towards the upcoming years, with a Venezuela that
10:08must strengthen its democracy, its economy, its institutionality, and that has the Magna
10:18Carta that this year we are going to submit to debate.
10:25We have a lot of work to do this year.
10:28We have the elections on April 27th.
10:35You must be in a campaign or the previous days of a campaign.
10:42I see the faces of some people here saying that they are going to repeat and become candidates
10:51again.
10:52The election date is established on April 27th.
11:01Get ready to repeat.
11:05That is not up to me.
11:07I don't appoint or deny candidates.
11:12Every political party will elect their candidates, and I wish you luck.
11:20Governors, mayors, I am thankful to you for the labor you have done for the peace of Venezuela
11:33during all these complex years.
11:40If you repeat, we will see each other here in a year.
11:46You are invited.
11:48On April 27th, there is a call, the first constitutional call, because this year the
11:59constitutional mandate of governors, mayors, and National Assembly must be renewed.
12:09The National Council is the only body to call on electoral processes.
12:16It does not correspond to the President of the Republic or any other institution to appoint
12:23legislators, councils, senators.
12:29It corresponds to the only one that can appoint governors, mayors, and that is the sovereign
12:38people, the neighbors, the men and women of the streets.
12:44They only can decide.
12:49These years have gone by fast.
12:53The new National Assembly has a date to be established, January 5th, 2026, 11 a.m., and
13:04the people on January 27th will elect a new National Assembly, legislative power of the
13:10power, elections, elections, democracy.
13:14Let's get ready to go to the streets.
13:18You must get ready to debate, and the people will decide, and that will be the best decision
13:26for every state, every municipality of the country, and in general for the whole country.
13:35There's a lot of work to do for this year.
13:46We have six consultations.
13:49This Sunday we will hold a popular consultation so that the communal circuits, marvelous formula,
13:58Minister Alhel Prado, Minister of the Popular Power for Communes, the Popular Movement,
14:05and Urban Agriculture.
14:10The first consultation of the year, we have 36,000 projects that are debated by the people.
14:20These are not projects invented by Maduro.
14:24Since supposedly Maduro is a dictator, he imposes the projects for the people.
14:33What a weird dictatorship.
14:35How do we call this?
14:42It is not tough at all.
14:51It cannot be called dictatorship.
14:55The regime of Maduro has promoted 36,000 projects.
15:03I talk this way so that the EFE agency of Spain has information, the agency that every
15:18year, every day, is carrying out a campaign against our country.
15:27Watch out because fascism can come back to you.
15:32All of the journalists that are mercenaries against Venezuela will see the face of fascism.
15:38God forbid another Franco arises in Spain.
15:47God protects Venezuela as well from fascism.
15:56The understanding of politics as the exercise of hatred and violence.
16:02This Sunday, February 2nd, precisely February 2nd, commemorating 26 years of the arrival
16:14of Commander Hugo Chavez to the Palace of Miraflores, sworn in as President of the Republic,
16:22our people are going to exercise their sovereignty.
16:25And I call on all of the communities, all of the neighbors, get informed of the seven
16:33projects that are going to be debated in your communal circuit.
16:38And on Sunday, the 5,334 communal circuits, go out and vote and elect your project because
16:47here we have the budget and the resources, and you decide, you elect, and you will receive
16:54the resources.
16:58This year we have several challenges.
17:04Popular consultations.
17:07We're going to hold six for a general level and two at particular level.
17:15One belongs to the youth projects that are proposed by the youth for the youth.
17:22We need to think very well about it.
17:25I was telling to the Vice President and Minister Jorge Marquez, we're talking, and I said to
17:31Angel Prados, we need to develop the amount of possible projects to postulate for the
17:43youth, with the youth, and in the same way, relating the culture.
17:49Which cultural projects we need to reinforce our identity, our symbols, our idiosyncrasy,
17:59our traditions, our culture, diverse and mixed.
18:06And to combine this marvelous method so that the people decide, receive the resources,
18:18and use them.
18:19Do you want more democracy?
18:22There you have it.
18:23Let's keep building this path.
18:25The Federal Council of Government, a constitutional body presided by the Executive Vice President,
18:41she has been working on all of these issues.
18:47I would like she to provide records on the year 2024 and the essential proposals for
18:58this year 2025 that this Federal Council of Government is going to assume, since it's
19:08a year of elections that are going to renovate, governorates, town halls, and anything won't
19:20stop.
19:21I hope we can have a year better than 2024, and we can continue to move forward in developing
19:29projects.
19:30Please, Vice President.
19:32Thank you, President.
19:33First of all, we must say that this is a body that is encompassed in the Constitution and
19:39has resisted the attacks of the criminal blockade against Venezuela.
19:47This body has thanked the governors, mayors, and the popular power, and has resisted the
19:55brutal situation of economic necessity created by the blockade.
20:02However, I will have to say that the year 2024 was a very good year when compared to
20:112023, but when we presented a resume of 2023, we said it has been a very good year regarding
20:212022.
20:22So, the resources have increased, especially methodology.
20:27First of all, we need to define the areas in which we are going to invest resources,
20:33public services, health, electricity, something that has borne from the reality of our people.
20:41And there, this method that you have applied after consultations carried out in 2024, both
20:46consultations have been successful, and the popular power can say, mission accomplished,
20:54President Maduro.
20:55And what is waiting for 2025 is growth, is development, and to consolidate everything
21:02we have and looking for new paths.
21:05In 2024, we executed practically all of the projects, almost 12,000 projects, 11,900 projects,
21:172,900 between governorate and town halls.
21:23The one of town halls reached 78%, and the projects financed in the first and second
21:33consultation reached 100% of execution.
21:38So, the resources were allocated on time and invested, in the case of the popular consultations,
21:47in assemblies where the projects were presented and then elected, but also something relevant,
21:55which is the process of analyzing the resources received.
22:02So, what you were saying about the popular power using better the resources with transparency,
22:11because we are renting accounts in a very important way, reaching over an 80%, and this
22:17is a marvelous method to consolidate popular democracy.
22:21Then what has to do with areas in the first and second popular consultation, the project
22:29that was financed the most was related to water, and the second to viability.
22:37If we compare it to the Federal Council of Government, the second sector was water.
22:43So, we see a conclusion between this body, which is the Federal Council of Government,
22:49the regions, governorates, town halls, and popular powers.
22:54These are the same areas for investment and where we have had an extraordinary execution.
23:01So, President, 2024 has closed with extraordinary numbers, and I want to congratulate the Secretary
23:11of the Council of Government, who has been there, and in 2025, President, the numbers
23:21will be of growth relating to 2024.
23:25I hope this accomplishes.
23:28Let's listen to the Executive Secretary.
23:32President, I want to thank you as worker of the Federal Council of Government.
23:38I think we're proud to address the popular power more and more.
23:43We have created methodologies to accelerate times and adapt your orders in matter of development
23:50of projects to create more inclusive projects, projects where the popular power has the opportunity
23:57to adapt to the small needs and big needs that each territory has, and at the same way,
24:06it develops on the right time, and the execution is carried out with good practices in correspondence
24:15with the resources, but also highlighting the directives in each of the sectors.
24:24This has allowed that in this method of rendering accounts, we carry out an assembly in each
24:31of the circuits, and the leader of the project is strengthened.
24:36So congratulations, President, because this cycle of popular consultations developed by
24:41you is an extraordinary method to guarantee that the popular power keeps receiving resources.
24:49This year, 2024, was a year of growth in each sector, more than 12,000 in different projects
24:56and categories, and more than 9,000 were allocated to the popular power.
25:01You can count on the team of the communal councils and communes that are willing to
25:09grantee that your policies reach every territory.
25:13That's correct.
25:19Institutionally, we are reunited under the Article 185.
25:29It reads, the Federal Council of Government is the body in charge of planning and coordinating
25:46policies and actions to the development of processes of decentralization and competences
25:55of the national power to the states and municipalities.
25:59It will be presided by the Vice President, the Executive Vice President, and made up
26:08by ministers, governors, mayors of each state, and representatives of the organized society
26:18are complying with the law.
26:22We are in our law, as Mexicans say.
26:29We are with our Constitution.
26:32The Federal Council of Government will have a secretary, made up by the Executive Vice
26:41President, two ministers, three governors, three mayors from the Federal Council of Government
26:51will defend the Fund of Interterritorial Compensation, destined to financing public
26:58investments to promote the balanced development of regions, cooperation and complementation
27:06of the policies and initiatives of the different institutions in the territories, and support
27:13the construction of built works and services needed for the territories.
27:22The Federal Council of Government will discuss and approve annually the resources allocated
27:29for the Fund of Compensation and the prioritized areas in which these resources will be allocated.
27:38This is the end of the article.
27:40This article, read this way, if you use your creativity in a public debate regarding the
27:54constitutional reform of February 15, it can be perfected regarding the experience we have
28:02obtained and integrate the bodies of the popular power already defined that execute
28:11and develop projects in the territory.
28:14Do you realize when we talk about the constitutional reform, we do it to perfect democracy and
28:22the constitutional model of Venezuela to draw the society of the future and include all
28:31of the sectors in a constitution that is inclusive and that we have from the inclusive spirit
28:41of the constitution of the 99 to call more and prioritize social players and the people
28:52of the streets, the real strengths of a country that is new, that is different.
28:59I was saying it to the journalist, Brendan Alma, from Brazil, who interviewed me.
29:14It's in my YouTube channel, if you want to see it, and also on my social media.
29:21And he was saying, what is this reform for?
29:25And I was explaining.
29:26It has three objectives to extend the Venezuelan democracy and perfect it.
29:34Second, draw the elements and values of the construction of a new society, a new civilization,
29:41a new modernity from Venezuela with idiosyncrasy and identity.
29:46And in the third place, to reflect here the economic model to be developed for the societies
29:56of the future, for a self-sustained Venezuela with a diversified economy and protected from
30:05inner and external attacks we are building.
30:08So the Federal Council of Government has a secretary that is going to be proposed by
30:22the Vice President of the Republic.
30:32It will be conformed by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Federal Council of Government
30:43and Founder of Interterritorial Conversation, Sub-Secretary Leonardo Montezuma-Ruiz.
30:56For the ministers, the Vice President of Public Services, Head of the One Times Ten and Number
31:07Two T, Minister of Energy, Márquez González de Tobar, Mérida, and the Vice President
31:20of Science, Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Minister of Science, Professor Gabriela Jiménez
31:28Ramírez from Caracas, Uxbord, from La Guaira.
31:37By the governors, three governors, Governor Antonio Primitivo Cedeño Marrera from Portuguesa,
31:49the Governor Ernesto Javier Luna González from Monagas, and Governor José Alberto Galíndez
31:58Cordero from the State of Jérez.
32:01The three governors of the Secretariat of the Council.
32:08And at the level of town halls, we would be the Mayor of Caracas, Carmen Teresa Rivas,
32:15the Mayor of the Mara Municipality, San Rafael del Moján, unforgettable the visit we carried
32:23out there, full of spirituality and love.
32:29I was there, and I still feel the love of there and of the original people.
32:40Luis Geraldo Caldera Morales of the State Nueva Esparta, the town hall of Maneiro,
32:51David Morales Rodríguez, better known as Morelito.
32:58Greetings to your grandfather, Governor Morales.
33:03This would be the Secretariat to work as a collective together everything that needs
33:13to be done.
33:15The Vice President was saying last year it was possible to increase over 100% the allocation
33:30of funds regarding 2023, the equivalent of $2.9 million in bolivars, of which was given
33:46to the governorates, $119 million to the town hall, $60 million.
33:59The level of execution of the projects in the governorates is at 87%, and it should
34:08finish this year, and the execution of town halls is at 78%.
34:16To the popular power, through the new method of the direct consultation with a direct vote
34:23of the people was delivered $96,384,000, and it's equivalent in bolivars, and it has execution
34:37in the first consultation of 97%, and the second one of 96%, a record execution.
34:45Congratulations.
34:46$290 million, we're saying this year we will increase it by 54%, distributed by the interterritorial
35:07fund of the Federal Council of Government, over $400 million, and it's equivalent in bolivars.
35:19The moment will come when the recovery of the economy, we only use bolivar as a reference.
35:32Everything at its time, with patience, everything is possible.
35:39That's the phrase.
35:49In this sense, the governorates will have 29% more of resources, over $129 million,
36:04and it's equivalent in bolivars, and the town halls will have 15% more of resources, over
36:13$67 million, and it's equivalent in bolivars.
36:22The popular power for the consultations, because now the popular power is the one that decides
36:32the project, not some techniques here or there.
36:38It's going to have a fund that is going to be received by the Federal Council of Government
36:54for the four general consultations will receive $237 million, which implies 130% more resources.
37:14And as a Portuguese friend of mine said, that's the beginning, because this year has to be
37:23the big ban of the direct democracy.
37:31That's just the beginning.
37:41Many good things are developing to keep working.
37:48Another datum I can provide you that the Federal Council of Government has given me
37:54is the priorities of the projects, 80% of the projects of governorates and town halls
38:08are focused on viability.
38:20Yesterday I signed a decree to increase the development of this process in paths, roads, and streets.
38:35We are permanently carrying out an effort, and we can do more with what we have, a lot more, 30%, water, 16%, health, 13%, electricity, 12, transportation, 9, governorates and town halls
38:58with their work teams doing this.
39:01But look at the priorities of the popular power.
39:06First of all, water.
39:12Second place, housing, the issue of housing and the new housing plan.
39:19In the third place, the roads, in 28%, in the first place, water, here it is.
39:41In the first place, water, 28%.
39:44In the second place, roads, 17%, and governorates and town halls had it in the first place.
39:56Roads, they are worried about the roads more.
40:12The potholes in the streets, I do as well.
40:16I was out of a beautiful act, and when I was leaving, I stepped on a pothole, and people
40:27said, the neighbors, it has been there for 13 years, and I said, today it's going to
40:35be covered.
40:36But did I have to be there to carry out that task?
40:43It's a reflection.
40:44I know that work is hard, and sometimes the resources are not enough, but when you put
40:51your effort and support in the creative power of the people, everything is possible.
40:59And I was saying, I said to the neighbors, couldn't you gather some ground and cover
41:07it?
41:09And then protest and said, we need to do something to solve the problem.
41:19But it's not possible that the pothole continues to be there for years and nobody solves the
41:28problem.
41:36Things have to work, and this country has to work, and it has to be beautiful, better
41:44every time for a people that deserves it, and what I said yesterday, for a people that
41:52is here building, for the migrants that have returned that are a lot, 1,200, 2,000.
42:03In schools, we have welcomed 4,000 new kids in this school year.
42:14There where they were, they didn't have the right to public free education, and they were
42:20discriminated because they were Venezuelans, or the campaign that the far right has carried
42:27out against Venezuela, all of those people of the far right wing that I'm not going to
42:33mention.
42:34Those kids came to Venezuela.
42:36They are happy.
42:37They have a school, education.
42:40They will graduate in primary school, high school, and they have their place in the universities
42:48to study whatever they want to study, only in Venezuela.
42:53Venezuela has to be a paradise for our people.
42:55We need to achieve this.
42:57We're going to do it, and for those who return, because we say to our migrants, we want you
43:11to return, so that you be happy here, and become entrepreneurs here, and work here in
43:20your land.
43:22It will be the legacy of your children, so that they come here to party, to dance, to
43:30work, to study, to create a homeland.
43:34We want they to return.
43:37If they are not left there, we do love them, and we open our arms for them.
43:46This blessed Venezuela.
43:50Water supply, 28 percent.
43:55On the second place, water.
44:00Roads, second place.
44:03There's the tide.
44:05We need to focus on the second transformation of the plan of the seven transformations.
44:11Water, roads, roads, water.
44:18And on the third place, governors have electricity.
44:24You have housing, and in the fourth place, popular power, and governors have, in the
44:30fourth place, electricity, and fifth, transportation.
44:34You have fourth place, electricity, fifth, health, sixth, education, and their productive
44:43services, which is the productive economy.
44:46So we need to use all of those fields to have a single method of work to be able to keep
44:59articulating.
45:02Rule is not easy.
45:08I tell you, and I think that I know, and you know, why do I say it.
45:18When you rule with sanctions, economic war, and threats 24 hours a day, it's hard because
45:34it's a challenge.
45:40I'm not crying, nor I will.
45:46We are fighting.
45:48In the past, they say we are working hard and moving forward.
45:55This is a national offensive, simultaneous national offensive, in all of the fronts of
46:04life.
46:07That's why we have seven lines of transformation.
46:12It's something that has to happen nationwide.
46:16I know that rule and being a mayor is very difficult.
46:21I never wanted to be a mayor.
46:24I refused to be a mayor.
46:32When someone said, Nicolás, you could be the mayor of Caracas, Freddy was a witness
46:38because he was the mayor of Caracas twice, and had good relations with the metropolitan
46:47mayors by then.
46:55They were close friends.
46:59You look good as a mayor.
47:07Being a mayor is difficult.
47:10Being a governor is also very complex, but it's harder to be a mayor.
47:17That's what I think.
47:18That's what I see.
47:21I like to be a deputy because it requires an effort, but I like the political debate.
47:34I was happy being deputy from 2000 to 2005.
47:40Isn't it true, Selita?
47:41That's the first lady that loves you, the first combatant that defends you, deputy.
47:58It was successful, and I learned a lot in that period, 2000 to 2005.
48:06It was hard, but we grew up and strengthened the ideas of the national project, risking
48:19everything to defend our eternal commander, Rafael Chávez Frías.
48:26To be a governor and mayor is a very difficult task, but do you know how everything is easier
48:35when you trust the people, when you call on the people, when you empower people and trust
48:42them, and in the way in which governorates, town halls, and ministries are closer to the
48:54people and become an instrument of people?
48:58Be sure that it will be easier and we will have a better country.
49:06Difficulties of all of these years, six, eight years, have made of us better people.
49:13That's what I believe.
49:14Today, we are better people.
49:16Today, we are better human beings.
49:19Today, we have a better people.
49:23We have it, and in the way the upcoming months and years go through and challenge us, we
49:37will grow up, and you will see that we will be better every day.
49:47That's why I always call on dialogue, public debate, and mainly work, because if there
49:55is something that transforms human beings, it's work.
50:00If you work with faith and honesty, you build a new spirituality in yourself.
50:07If you work and you are capable of sacrificing things for other people and your homeland,
50:15you build something greater of what is your mission in this life.
50:22I want to congratulate you all.
50:25This Federal Council of Government is one of the most important institutions, and I
50:30hope that with the constitutional reform, we strengthen it, and I want to wish you success.
50:44We need to succeed.
50:46Congratulations, Mrs. Vice President, governors, mayors.
50:52Thank you very much.