Ammon News - Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to assume the powers and duties of acting president after the United States removed Nicolás Maduro.

The order was announced on Saturday night, local time, concluding that Maduro is in a “material and temporary impossibility to exercise his functions.”

Rodriguez will “assume and exercise, as acting president, all the powers, duties, and faculties inherent to the office of president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the nation,” according to the order, read by Justice Tania D’Amelio in a session broadcast by the state television channel VTV.

Venezuela’s constitution states that when there is a temporary or absolute absence of the president, the person holding the vice presidency must replace them.

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