Venezuela's aloft vice-president Nicolas Maduro has been affidavit in as acting admiral hours afterwards the accompaniment burial of Hugo Chavez.
The commemoration was led by National Assembly Apostle Diosdado Cabello in the capital, Caracas.
Mr Chavez, who died on 5 March afterwards a continued action with cancer, had alleged Mr Maduro as his alleged successor.
However, the capital action affiliation boycotted Mr Maduro's swearing-in, adage that it was unconstitutional.
It argues that - beneath the architecture - the apostle of the National Assembly should be the one to yield over as acting president.
The action leader, Henrique Capriles, alleged the move fraudulent.
After swearing in Mr Maduro, Mr Cabello said: "Venezuela will chase the avenue to socialism."
As acting president, Mr Maduro is accepted to alarm elections aural 30 days.
Holding a archetype of the Venezuelan architecture in his hand, Mr Maduro appear at the National Assembly: "I affirm in the name of complete adherence to Comandante [commander] Hugo Chavez that we will obey and avert this Bolivarian Architecture with the harder duke of the chargeless people."
Fireworks exploded aloft Caracas as Maduro was affidavit in.
Things to know: Nicolas Maduro
- Born in Caracas in 1962
- Former bus driver who began political career as a trade unionist
- Campaigned for Hugo Chavez's release from prison in 1994
- Speaker of the National Assembly from 2005-2006
- 2006 becomes foreign minister
- 2012 appointed vice-president
- Has long-standing ties with Cuba where he trained as a union organiser
- Described as a wily operator and a skilled negotiator
Earlier on Friday, Venezuelans paid an affecting adieu to Hugo Chavez.
Mr Maduro told mourners that Mr Chavez, who led Venezuela for 14 years, remained "undefeated, pure, active for all time".
The aloft vice-president began the burial commemoration by presenting Mr Chavez's casket with the brand of Simon Bolivar - the 19th-Century ability baton he claimed as his inspiration.
More than 30 apple leaders abounding the ceremony, including Cuban Admiral Raul Castro, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.
A bulletin was apprehend out from Syrian Admiral Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Chavez, 58, was re-elected for a fourth appellation as admiral endure October afterwards adage he had recovered from his illness.
He alleged Mr Maduro as his adopted almsman afterward the ceremony of his cancer.
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