- The former rector of the CNE alleged that the magistrate maintains a political link with Nicolás Maduro and the PSUV | Photo: EFE
Enrique Márquez, former presidential candidate and former director of the National Electoral Council (CNE), requested a recusal against the president of the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Caryslia Rodríguez, for indicating that she has political ties to Nicolás Maduro.
Márquez explained that she is also related to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and claimed that at no time has she hidden her political partisanship. This could mean bias when working on the appeal filed by Maduro for the expert appraisal of the electoral results of July 28.
What is a recusal?
It is an act in which a judge is removed from an administrative or judicial procedure due to his relationship with the facts or the parties involved.
The president of the Electoral Chamber has not hidden her political connections either in the past or in the present, and a judge, a female judge, can hardly dispense justice if she is not impartial,” said Márquez.
The former presidential candidate held a press conference on August 20 outside the TSJ to report that the recusal had been received, although he was not given the indictment document as a guarantee that he had submitted several documents to the court.
Márquez told the media that he does not yet know how the Electoral Chamber is progressing with the expert appraisal process.
Although Márquez has attended the TSJ summons in the context of this appeal, he has been one of the main critics of the procedure. On August 2, he went to the courtroom despite saying he had not received a formal summons. He did not sign the minutes that day either. in which the candidates declared to be informed about the process
“The Electoral Chamber allows us to consider ourselves notified without knowing the appeal. I must inform you that I refused to sign the notification act because I do not feel notified of anything. The notification must be accompanied by the reasons for the call. I am leaving as I came without knowing what this is about. But from here I reaffirm my firm commitment to the Constitution and to peace and the will expressed on July 28,” said Márquez in his speech to the media on August 2.
What is the process carried out by the Electoral Chamber of the TSJ?
Maduro filed a contentious appeal before the TSJ on July 31, in which he asked the Electoral Chamber to review and certify the results of the presidential elections in which the CNE declared him the winner.
The Electoral Chamber agreed to take up the process and summoned the 10 candidates for the presidential elections to a hearing on August 2. The court summoned Edmundo González Urrutia – standard-bearer of the majority opposition -, Javier Bertucci, Benjamín Rausseo, Daniel Ceballos, Claudio Fermín, Antonio Ecarri, Luis Eduardo Martínez, José Brito, Enrique Márquez and Nicolás Maduro.
On the day of the hearing, which was broadcast on open television, only González was absent. During the session, the judges reported on the acceptance of the appeal and indicated that the candidates had to return to court to present all the electoral materials that the parties that represented them in the presidential elections had in their possession. In addition, the court asked the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, to submit a series of documents for the expert appraisal of the electoral results.
Given González’s absence from the first hearing, the court summoned the opposition candidate and representatives of the parties that supported him in the election to present documents on August 7. However, González decided not to attend and gave reasons for his refusal to go to court.
Currently the Supreme Court of Justice It is in the expert phase for which they went to the CNE facilities and on August 17 they reported progress of at least 60% of the expert appraisal of the electoral records.
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2024-08-22 03:41:02
