Caracas, January 23 (RHC-teleSUR), -- Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has announced the establishment of a committee to oversee the creation of a revolutionary assembly Saturday.

The assembly will bring together the country's progressive social movements and socialist politicians to reinvigorate the Bolivarian Revolution, according to the president.

Later Saturday, Maduro will oversee the first meeting of an interim committee, which will lead to the creation of the broader people's congress, being called the Congeso de la Patria, or congress of the homeland.

The meeting is set to begin around 3 p.m local time.

The committee is the result of weeks of community and grassroots social movement meetings across Venezuela. The congress will sit until April 13, with meetings being held around the country.

Maduro called for renewed debate among Venezuela's progressives in the wake of the National Assembly elections in December. The right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) won a majority in the National Assembly. 

“What we need is strengthened diversity of the grassroots,” said Maduro in the wake of the December election results.