The Devil's Excrement

With the elections so close, here is another trick being used by
Chavismo to abuse the law and the electoral system, with the
collaboration of what should be an independent power, the Electoral
Board, as told by Tal Cual’s Editor Teodoro Petkoff.

The “twins” are unconstitutional by Teodoro Petkoff

After some grandstanding on the part of CNE Director Jorge Rodriguez,
with which he pretended to show how tough he is, alleging that if the “party”
UVE does not present the documentation his pulse would not tremble in not
approving its legality, with which Chavez’ MVR would have lost it twin, the
CNE- did anyone doubt it or believe its president?- consecrated the validity of
that national party. With this the Electoral organization has made itself the
accomplice of this illegal trick which is to validate that mechanism for
cheating called “the twins”. It is the CNE’s job to enforce the constitutional
principle of proportional representation of political parties and other electoral
organizations in elected bodies, according to the votes they obtain. The CNE
has distorted this mandate of the Constitution
when it “legalized” a clone of Chavez’ MVR, which will allow it to thwart
that principle, when it allows that it splits into two and to those elected by
list add those elected directly from UVE, as if this was a different party. This
mockery, the unconstitutionality of which is evident, MVR and its twin will be
able to obtain up to double the number of councilmen that would correspond to
them according to the proportion of their votes. Chavismo will be overrepresented
and its adversaries underrepresented.

This entry was posted on August 5, 2005 at 11:21 pm and is filed under Venezuela.