“The rule of law in Venezuela is in question,” said the experts who participated this Thursday in the Forum “Venezuela and its Constitutional Institutions”, organized by the Special Commission for Justice and Peace and the Subcommittee on Constitutional and Electoral Affairs.
By Centro de Comunicación Nacional
Mar 10, 2022
Manuel Rojas Pérez, a lawyer specializing in public law and politics, assured that many of those principles that make up the rule of law, from the perspective of a modern democracy, “the truth is they are difficult to find anywhere.”
“In the constitutional text, the State as is defined is not the one that exists in reality, an Executive Power that controls the current legislative power, that controls the current Judicial Power and there is no separation of powers,” he pointed out.
He said that there is no system of weights and counterweights, “on the contrary, we continue to see how the Executive Power continues to grow, there is no such system that allows equity between the powers and that at the end of the day puts the citizens in the center of public activity.
For the political scientist and professor, Ángel Lugo, the problem of the institutions is that they do not answer to the citizen, “but rather they answer to a central power and that power is in Miraflores.”
The institutions in Venezuela have ceased to be democratic, these are institutions that respond to an autocracy, to an authoritarian system, that only respond to the orders of Miraflores.
He warned that when this happens, the institutions distance themselves from the people and that is what the average Venezuelan is suffering, “the common Venezuelan, a Venezuelan who does not have justice, a Venezuelan who does not have health, a Venezuelan who does not have access to education or quality education, suffers this because these institutions are responding only to the plans that come out from Miraflores, it does not respond to a true public policy.”
While the lawyer Nelsón Faraco, reiterated that in the country the electoral institution also obeys power by having not only the majority of the main rectors, but also a large majority of alternates.
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