Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will hold an intense day of work here today with the four commissions created to promote and conduct the debates on the reform of the 1999 Constitution.

During the broadcast of his weekly nightly programme Con Maduro +, the president announced that this Tuesday they will meet intensively all day from 06:00 to 18:00 local time, «to start preparing the proposal and the whole day of consultation and debate».

He said he valued having «a beautiful Constitution that guarantees and allows these processes to take place, above all at the precise moment and time that we are doing so, and with an aware, educated and organised people».

Regarding the commissions, he said that the first will be coordinated by the President of the National Assembly (Parliament) Jorge Rodríguez and will be related to the Transformation, Modernisation and Democratic Enlargement of Venezuela.

The Attorney General of the Republic and constituent Tarek William Saab will act as coordinator of the second group, which will deal with the Principles and Values of the New Society, based on the «principles and values of the Constitution, which are very advanced», said the dignitary.

The first combatant, Member of Parliament and legal advisor Cilia Flores will lead the third commission on General Updating on the ideas that are emerging, while Executive Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez will take on the fourth, on the New Economic Model, he said.

Maduro said of the latter that there are many «beautiful things we are doing now, and we have achieved this by confronting sanctions and the whole economic war».

He affirmed that they have grown in the face of sanctions (there are more than a thousand according to official data) and the economic war, and «Venezuela is moving forward economically with its own effort and nothing and no one will stop us».

The president considered it important for everyone to be attentive and participate, and assured that «the doors are open to everyone and those who did not believe yesterday and today say they believe, welcome to the debate and to the construction because Venezuela belongs to all of us and we all fit in».

He said he was very motivated by this process, which has him «over-energised, because I believe that society can be updated, perfected, modernised and improved even more with our Constitution».

He said he was surprised that there are people on the right who never accepted that they voted no against the Constitution, who supported all the coups d’état in this country and now say that the Magna Carta is untouchable, that it is the best we have ever had in history.

He stressed that the Venezuelan Constitution «is the best in the entire history of Latin America and the Caribbean and was made by Hugo Chávez with the people, and now we are going to modernise and perfect it».