| Late yesterday, Venezuela’s constitutional chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice issued an order to the lower electoral chamber to hold off on making any decisions related to the recall referendum until the constitutional chamber decides on requests to excuse several of the chamber’s judges from the case.
Gerardo Blyde, of the opposition party Primero Justicia (Justice First), had submitted a request that one of judges who according to him are considered sympathetic to the government be excused from the case against the National Electoral Council (CNE), due to his presumed ties to pro-government circles. Similarly, leaders of the pro-government coalition and the legal adviser to the CNE asked that electoral chamber judges sympathetic to the opposition be excused, due to their positions in favor of the recall referendum against the President. The electoral chamber consists of three members, two of whom are considered sympathetic to the opposition and one to the government. |
If they recuse any or all of the judges, I wonder where they're going to find replacements who aren't sympathetic to one side or the other.
And, hey, if they just keep this up, they'll eventually get to the next regular election date, anyway.
It's 82 degrees in Caracas today, and forecast to be 68 tonight. And pretty much the same for all next week. Here in Columbia, it's about 50 and threatens to be 38 tonight - 28 tomorrow night - looking for some snow on Monday.
Really looking forward to that April 8 trip to Caracas.
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