Venezuelan opponent José Gregorio Correa said that the election of the Supreme Court is achieved through dialogue

The opposition deputy of the Venezuelan Parliament José Gregorio Correa said on Monday that dialogue is the basis for the election of the new judges of a Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that is “available to everyone”.

“It is a goal to have at the return of Easter a Supreme Court of Justice that is within everyone's reach; we cannot stop that and that can only be achieved through dialogue,” he said.

Correa indicated that the HCJ “suitable” for all is not a matter for the majority but it is a matter of “dialogue, conversation and justice.”

“Dialogue must not stop at Easter, it cannot be that we go on vacation without having dialogue. I think we need to keep talking, we really need dialogue,” he stressed.

On April 6, the Venezuelan NGO Access to Justice denounced that the Chavista majority Parliament has “unjustifiably” delayed the election process of the new Supreme Magistrates, whose appointment was postponed on March 25.

“The official NA unjustifiably delays the process of electing the judges who will be members of the Supreme Court of Justice, as well as the appointment of the director of the School of the Magistracy and the Inspector General of Courts,” the NGO said on its Twitter account.

In this regard, the organization indicated that the reform of the Venezuelan Supreme Court “was progressing at full steam”, after the adoption, in an “express and unanimous manner”, of the reform to the Organic Law of the HCJ that had been proposed by the president of this body, Maikel Moreno, but that since the postponement of the election, on December 25 March, the appointment has been postponed.

He explained that, after this date, “the AN has modified at least eight times the call for the ordinary session to be held within 5 continuous days after receipt of the list sent by the Committee for the Evaluation of Nominations of the Citizen Power”, for the election of judges.

Following the reform of the Organic Law of the TSJ, the number of judges making up the high court was reduced from 32 to 20.

The Constitutional Chamber will be composed of five magistrates and the remaining five (Electoral, Political-Administrative, Civil Cassation, Criminal Cassation and Social Cassation) by three judges, according to the proposed law reform, as opposed to the seven and five, respectively, that they currently have.

(With information from EFE)

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