Supreme Court rules signatures for recall referendum valid

February 15, 2003

In a decision that may be very important medium term, the Supreme Court said yesterday that the signatures for a recall referendum do not have to be collected after the date that the referendum is possible, but may be collected in advanced. This means that the signatures gathered on Feb. 2nd. can be used for the recall referendum of Presdent Cahvez. The Government had argued that they could not. In fact, the Vice President said Feb. 3d. that they were useless, because of the date they were obtained and the fact that they could not be audited, whatever that meant.

This entry was posted on February 15, 2003 at 11:12 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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