Vice-President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in as acting-president of Venezuela on Friday after a state funeral is held for Hugo Chavez, the speaker of the National Assembly said Thursday.
Legislature chief Diosdado Cabello made the announcement on national television.
He said Mr. Maduro would be sworn in at 7 p.m. in the same military academy complex where the the ex-president has been lying in state.
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On Tuesday, after announcing Mr. Chavez?s death, the government said Mr. Maduro would both be acting-president and the presidential candidate of the governing party.
The opposition cried foul. Venezuela?s constitution specifies that upon Mr. Chavez?s death, Mr. Cabello should have become interim- president and elections for a new president called within 30 days.
A former Supreme Court judge, Blanca Rosa Marmo, said that Mr. Maduro could not run for president as vice-president. She said the government is not adhering to the constitution. She said it?s Mr. Cabello, not Mr. Maduro, who should be sworn in.
The government said Tuesday that the election would be convoked in 30 days. It is not clear when they will be held.
Mr. Cabello said Mr. Maduro would be sworn in and call the elections.
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