Maybe Chavez has taken advice from his ally, ex president Putin , how to keep control from behind the scene and make it as his plan " B " in a probable defeat of the referendum.

Caracas, Dec. 14. ABN .- The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, made a call to respect the results given in the referendum on the constitutional amendment.

This was expressed during the program José Vicente Today, broadcast this Sunday on December 14 by the channel Televen and led by the renowned Venezuelan journalist Jose Vicente Rangel.

During the interview, the head of state recalled what had happened hours before the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the results of the referendum on constitutional reform, held in December 2007.

"Now, we respect the results of the national referendum. You remember, the country recalled that a year ago when the referendum on the reform had already begun guarimba before they announce the results. That is to say that there was no violence because we lost, we would have won if they had different plans, as one of them said, to burn down the city. Hopefully this is not the attitude now come when a new referendum. "

It also said that if approved the constitutional amendment in referendum, it would deepen the construction of socialism.

"That will give you more cargo, more dynamism to the construction of socialism, the people's power, the National Project Simón Bolívar, in the framework of the constitution and respect the opposition, minorities, those who do not share the Bolivarian project ".

To be consulted by the interviewer about attitude would assume that if not approved the proposed amendment, said it would take the same attitude he had last year when they knew the outcome of the referendum on constitutional reform.

"It would be something absolutely new, traumatic for me ... In that situation would do the same and would continue to govern the four years I have left. "