DR. ESCARRA ON PDVSA - ARTICLES 302 AND 303 OF THE CONSTITUTION
Caracas, July 12, 2017 DR. HERMANN ESCARRÁ STATEMENT ABOUT ARTICLES 302 AND 303 OF THE CONSTITUTION. As a result of the interventions in the assemblies of workers of PDVSA, we have been affirming the need to update articles 302 and 303 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. And in this sense, when referring to Article 302 of the Constitution, the only thing we have said is that this rule does not contemplate gas or other hydrocarbons , so it is necessary for the rule to express the reservation of the state through the organic law, and for reasons of national convenience, of the activity of hydrocarbons and other industries, operators, services and goods of public interest and of strategic character. With regard to article 303 of the Constitution, our invariable affirmation has been to maintain the thesis of that superior rule in the sense that, for reasons of economic, political and national sovereignty, t