In the last week decided the Venezuelan constituent assembly, a kind of parallel parliament controlled by president Nicolás Maduro, Édgar Zambrano and several other members of the formal parliament would be deprived of his parliamentary immunity in order to be able to be brought to justice. Zambrano is the executive vice president.

At 18.30 o’clock on Wednesday local time, was stopped Édgar Zambrano and his companionship in his car by the secret service, Sebin. They refused to go out. Then dragged the with the help of a tow trucks for Sebins headquarters, writes Zambrano himself on Twitter.

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the Incident was later confirmed by the president of the constituent national assembly, Diosdado Cabello, which at the same time pointed out three additional parliamentarians who are obliged to have supported last week’s ”coup attempt”, writes El País.

released and says that if this is not done it will ”have consequences”.

Juan Guaidó is president of the formal parliament, where the opposition has a majority. Guaidó himself has named himself the interim president of Venezuela because he believes that Maduro is selected on the illegitimate basis. As such, it has Guaidó also been recognized by the fifty states, including the united states and EU countries.

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to take over power in connection with a massmanifestation against the regime and a planned maneuver he called ”operation freedom”. Guaidó showed he had elements of the military. During a speech at an air base, he had the company of some officers who changed sides. Later relieve some of these soldiers another opposition, Leopoldo López, from his house arrest. López is Guaidós role model and mentor.

But the overwhelming majority of the military changed not page. President Maduro explained later that what he described as a coup attempt had failed.

Zambrano and other members of parliament have lost their parliamentary immunity in order to have supported this attempt to seize power.

admitted days after the failure of the regime change that he misjudged the military’s support. He had anticipated massavhopp.

There are various information afloat about why Guaidó chose to so oförväget go out and claim that the change of power was near.

There should have been a secret deal between the opposition and the important parts of the regime if a bloodless maktövergång. But that Leopoldo López was taken from his house arrest may have been what thwarted the plan, writes Bloomberg in an analysis.

Guaidó counted, likely by liberation of López, his role model and mentor, would be seen as a proof that the government really rolled in with the force. But the action was not included in the secret plan, and according to the analysis drew several central Maduroaktörer out when they saw that López, as they do not trust, was free.

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