Nicolas Maduro Sworn in as Venezuelan President - Friday March 8,2013
Nicolas Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan President(Late President Hugo Chavez designated Maduro as his successor before he died on March 5,2013Tuesday of cancer)The President of the National Assembly
Diosdado Cabello (Right) decorates Nicolas Maduro after swearing him in
as Venezuela's acting president at the National Assembly in Caracas,
Venezuela, on Friday.
Venezuela’s 1999 constitution says the National Assembly speaker becomes
interim president in the event of a president-elect’s death or inability
to be sworn in and also says a presidential election
should be called within 30 days
Opposition leader Angel Medina said earlier Friday that the opposition
would boycott the swearing-in ceremony, and the vast majority of
opposition legislators did not attend
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