And Petkoff agrees with me in today’s Tal Cual that someone should start thinking about removing Carrasquero from the Supreme Court.
Attention Maduro: We have to review Don Francisco by Teodoro Petkoff
This microreporter believes it is necessary to insist before the National Assembly on the need to review the designation of Francisco Carrasquero as a Justice of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. This is not simply zeal to perturb the patience of the accused, but it is simply proposed as a matter of public morals and health. Between last December 13th., when he was named to the Court, and January 17th. of this year, when he assumed his new position, Don Francisco hired 354 new workers for the CNE, ten a day! The last day he hired a total of 34 new bread winners. Of those 354, some 40 were either his relatives, or relatives of his wife, or relatives of his assistants and one relative of his bodyguard. But the indefatigable Carrasquero, during the same period, also made 732 movements of personnel: promoting friends, higher salaries for the better friends, new positions and new responsibilities for the best friends. Imagine how pharaonic this abuse was that the current Electoral Board had to void the moves. Now, an individual capable of such irresponsibility, that plays that way with the budget, with the Government to which it serves and with the country, a guy without the minimal rational capability to correctly appreciate the abuse he was committing, does he have the needed qualification to exercise the condition of supreme judge of the republic? Can he be trusted? I say it with total seriousness: The National Assembly has to look at this with a magnifying glass.
And I (TDE) remind everyone that this is the same man that rushed to announce at 3 AM on August 17th. that the No had won the recall vote, without audits, witnesses and all of the results being available. He also refused to open all of the ballot boxes to count. Why? Easy: as immoral then as he is now.

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