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What will happen with the presidence in Venezuela?

In Venezuela exist a big uncertainty about what will happen with the health of the president Hugo Chávez, the problem is that the old-term presidency finishes at 10-January and it's possible that the elected president Hugo Chavez wouldn't be able to return to Venezuela, and the Venezuelan Constitution establish the National Assambly as the site to renewal the power, but its very vague about the case where the elected and current president are the same person. So my question is Which are the Constitutional possible scenarios that may occur about this subject?

Venezuela's opposition demanded that the government reveal specifics of President Hugo Chavez's condition, criticising secrecy surrounding the ailing leader's health more than three weeks after his cancer surgery in Cuba.

Opposition coalition leader Ramon Guillermo Aveledo said at a news conference on Thursday that the information provided by government officials "continues to be insufficient".

Chavez has not been seen or heard from since the December 11 operation, and Vice President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday said the president's condition remained "delicate" due to complications from a respiratory infection.

The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, says his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, is in a very worrying condition. His statement comes amid demands from the Venezuelan opposition that the government in Caracas tell the truth about the president's health. Chávez is suffering from complications after a fourth round of surgery for cancer in Cuba.

In a television interview from Havana, Mr Maduro said Mr Chavez was “conscious” of his condition after his fourth operation in his battle with cancer, and said he had shown occasional signs of improvement.

His comments were made as Spanish newspaper ABC reported claims by unnamed hospital sources in Cuba that Chavez was in an induced coma and relying on a life-support machine.

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