MVR leadership rejects Court’s decision

August 5, 2003

The pro-Chavez leadership in the National Asembly rejected yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court, giving them ten days to choose the members of the Electoral Board. According to them, there has been no omission since they had made all efforts to select the members of the Electoral Board. Interesting, there is no omission but they had ten days from April 8th. to select the Board, let’s see that makes it 18th. of April and today is August 5th., I guess they just don’t understand what omission means, no? But the part I don’t understand is that they say that it would appear to be a contradiction to replace a transitory regime (the current CNE) for another one that would still “would continue to lack constitutionally or democratic legitimacy”. It seems to me that it never bothered them to have the previous transient CNE until it started threatening them and now they find their same transient nature “undemocratic and illegimitate”? What cynics.

This entry was posted on August 5, 2003 at 10:23 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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