Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido led a "parallel" National Assembly session in El Hatillo, a municipality located in the southeast of Caracas, on Wednesday and denounced what he called “terrorist” elements preventing him from performing at the Palace Federal Legislative.

Guaido said that Venezuelan military personnel assigned to protect the surroundings of the National Assembly acted as "accomplices of terrorists" and that they even "used weapons" to prevent a group of like-minded deputies from reaching the seat of Parliament, in central Caracas.

In an amphitheatre that served as a hemicycle, the opposition deputy asked Venezuelans "not to stay in their homes" and "demand the change that Venezuela needs, all oriented to a solution at this time in the country, all oriented to face this dictatorship," Guaido said to his supporters.

On January 5, dissident opposition deputy Luis Parra was sworn in as the new president of the National Assembly after his rival Guaido was prevented from entering the building and joining a special session of Parliament.

Two days later the opposition leader managed to enter Parliament to swear in office for a new period.