Venezuela postpones inauguration for chavez
Updated: 2013-01-09 08:16
(Xinhua)
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CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, recovering in Cuba from a cancer surgery, will not be able to return to Caracas to take office on Thursday as the Constitution stipulates, National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello said Tuesday.
Cabello read a letter to a regular session of the parliament, in which vice-president Nicolas Maduro informed the lawmakers that the inauguration has to be postponed to a later date.
"The president has requested to inform that according to the recommendations of his medical team ... the post-operative process of recuperation must extend beyond Jan 10," the letter said.
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