Government willing to sign agreement on revocatory referendum

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela Electronic News Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2003 By: Robert Rudnicki

According to Executive Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel, the government is now ready to sign an agreement to hold a revocatory referendum which could be held as soon as August, mid  way through President Hugo Chavez Frias' presidential term, as set out in the current Constitution.

However, Rangel insists that should the President lose the referendum then he would have the right to defend himself by standing in the general elections that would follow.

Although Rangel says the government has not actually agreed to sign such an agreement "there are no obstacles preventing it." As for the date of the possible vote, the Vice President says that this wouldn't be included in the agreement.