The lawyer and former Chavista deputy María Alejandra Díaz insisted that the exercise of rights is legal and constitutional and clarified that the plaintiffs did not offend or generate any anxiety, as the TSJ stated. “They are only asking to comply with rulings 31 of the Electoral Chamber and 211 and 212 of the Constitutional Chamber and their binding jurisprudential criteria”
Luis Castillo | The Carabobeño
The lawyer and former Chavista deputy María Alejandra Díaz described as “an abuse” and “an overreach” the decision of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which suspended her from her professional practice after filing an appeal to demand the publication of the disaggregated results. of the presidential elections on July 28.
“Not only is it an abuse, it is an overreach and a clear warning to the free exercise of politics,” he wrote in his account on x the former deputy, who assisted the Popular Democratic Front (FDP), a dissident Chavismo coalition, in the appeal for constitutional protection against the National Electoral Council.
The Constitutional Chamber not only rejected the appeal, which requested to order the CNE to publish detailed results, but also fined and temporarily suspended Díaz from professional practice due to “the serious allegations” noted in the constitutional protection action.
For Judge Tania D’Amelio, who signs the presentation, the arguments put forward by Díaz “question and disrespect the power held by the Electoral Chamber and the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, and also intend to generate anxiety and shock in the population.” .
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The lawyer insisted that the exercise of rights is legal and constitutional, while clarifying that the plaintiffs did not offend or cause any anxiety. “They are only asking to comply with rulings 31 of the Electoral Chamber and 211 and 212 of the Constitutional Chamber and their binding jurisprudential criteria.”
He argued that the TSJ’s sanction is disproportionate, since there is “no provision that establishes it, much less do they have jurisdiction to do so, without respecting due process and my right to defense.”
The former deputy pointed out that these types of sanctions should not be applied to lawyers, much less a constitutional instance. “Who will now want to defend political and social causes like the current one, if they can receive this type of punishment?”
María Alejandra Díaz warned on Wednesday, October 30, when the amparo was introduced, that the CNE failed to comply with what is established in article 155 of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes on the publication of voting results in the Electoral Gazette, in addition to the sentences of the Electoral Chamber and the Constitutional Chamber.
According to the CNE, Nicolás Maduro won the presidential election on July 28, but the organization did not publish the detailed results of the election. A part of the opposition, led by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, claimed fraud based on the voting records in their possession. Part of the international community has said that it will not recognize the president’s victory until the results are published in detail.
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