{"id":19041,"date":"2013-01-09T01:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T00:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/09\/282526\/chavez-wont-attend-swearingin-vp-says\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T01:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T00:34:02","slug":"chavez-cant-take-oath-vp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/chavez-cant-take-oath-vp-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez can\u2019t take oath, VP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks at a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro says President Hugo Chavez will not attend the presidential inauguration this week for his third term in office due to health problems.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Venezuelan National Assembly read out on Tuesday, Maduro said Chavez would miss Thursday&#8217;s scheduled swearing-in ceremony as his recovery process &#8220;should be extended beyond Jan. 10&#8221; on the advice of his medical team.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he stated that Chavez invoked a provision in the constitution allowing him to be sworn in before the Supreme Court of Justice at a later date if he is unable to take the oath before lawmakers in the assembly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 58-year-old president is in Cuba after undergoing a fourth round of cancer surgery in the Cuban capital Havana on December 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIn March 2012, Chavez began radiation treatment in Cuba after undergoing an operation in February 2012 that removed a second cancerous tumor from his pelvic region. Chavez\u2019s first tumor, which was baseball-sized, was removed in June 2011, and then he received chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez, who came to power in 1999, was reelected to a new six-year term in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/MHB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks at a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro says President Hugo Chavez will not attend the presidential inauguration this week for his third term in office due to health problems.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Venezuelan National Assembly read out on Tuesday, Maduro said Chavez would miss Thursday&#8217;s scheduled swearing-in ceremony as his recovery process &#8220;should be extended beyond Jan. 10&#8221; on the advice of his medical team.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he stated that Chavez invoked a provision in the constitution allowing him to be sworn in before the Supreme Court of Justice at a later date if he is unable to take the oath before lawmakers in the assembly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 58-year-old president is in Cuba after undergoing a fourth round of cancer surgery in the Cuban capital Havana on December 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIn March 2012, Chavez began radiation treatment in Cuba after undergoing an operation in February 2012 that removed a second cancerous tumor from his pelvic region. Chavez&rsquo;s first tumor, which was baseball-sized, was removed in June 2011, and then he received chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez, who came to power in 1999, was reelected to a new six-year term in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/MHB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}