Caracas, December 8 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Following Sunday’s parliamentary electoral loss, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with Bolivarian governors and ministers and called for a range of consultation methods in order to strengthen the Bolivarian movement.

Speaking on public television Monday evening, Maduro argued that discussion and reflection were necessary, to then come up with a plan of action among the social movements, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and other pro-Revolution parties and organizations.

The Venezuelan president said that after an all-day meeting, reflecting on the results that saw the MUD opposition coalition gain a significant majority in parliament, his cabinet had made a number of decisions and come up with a timeline of action.

“We got 43 percent of the votes … the counterrevolution triumphed yesterday, for now,” he said, using former President Hugo Chavez’s famous phrase to mean that a loss is just a short-term setback.

“They have come for the neo-liberal restoration of the far right,” he said, arguing that defense of the revolution’s gains was necessary.  He called for debate and a rebuilding of strength of the revolution, because, “the Venezuelan right wing has just one program: to destroy the Bolivarian Revolution.”
   
Maduro announced a week of discussions in order to come up with a united strategy of the revolution. “Unity should be the main aim,” he said, adding: “No one should be confused by an adverse situation.”

The president called for a special meeting today of all the organizations and parties that make up the GPP, the umbrella group of those who support the revolution.

He called for a meeting to take place next Saturday of the Presidential Councils of Popular Power; those councils that were elected to represent indigenous people, workers, youth, women, and other social sectors.

Then, for next Wednesday, December 16th, he called for a meeting of all PSUV delegates in Caracas.  He said that nine hundred delegates will evaluate the situation, develop plans and make proposals.

Maduro argued that it was important to come up with a “central document for the Bolivarian Revolution” and to also create a separate commission for the National Assembly, which would work on defending the workers’ rights law, the social movements, and other legislative gains.

“This oligarchy will never represent you,” Maduro told Venezuelans in his address Monday, referring to the new elected opposition legislators, who will be sworn-in next month.