Addressing the Venezuelan military on Saturday, President Nicolas Maduro warned of a large-scale crisis and an impending showdown due to the recent victory at the polls of the right-leaning opposition coalition.

In last week’s election, the conservative Democratic Unity coalition was able to secure a two-thirds majority of the seats for a new national assembly. The opposition party is set upon putting an end to the socialist policies that typify the Venezuelan government. Maduro sees the surge in right-wing popularity as a threat.

"We're facing a large-scale crisis that is going to generate a power struggle between two poles: the patriots and the anti-patriots," he said, according to Reuters.

The 53-year-old leader said the crisis would not only create huge tensions within the government but would be counter-revolutionary to the aims of the nation.

The recent success experienced by the Democratic Unity coalition is largely due to Venezuela's economic situation. The socialist nation currently has the highest inflation in the world.

The opposition coalition has said that the first thing they will do when they come to power on Jan. 5 will be to free political prisoners.

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles has made it clear that the failing economy is the most urgent matter on their agenda. "We have to demand solutions to the worst economic and social crisis in our history," he said.

Maduro stands firm by his socialist solutions to the nation’s recession. “2015 has been a terrible year ... But we will face the difficulties with more revolution!,” he exclaimed.

Months before the recent election, Maduro made it clear that he would be ready to fight for socialism.

The Wall Street Journal reports, he said, “Venezuela will enter one of the most murky and emotional phases of its political life and we will defend the revolution, we will not hand over the Revolution and the revolution will move to a new phase.”