Venezuelan lawyers demand restoration of TSJ institutions and warn that 99% of judges are provisional
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- Venezuela’s Constitutional Bloc called for the Supreme Tribunal of Justice to be reinstitutionalized and warned that 99% of judges are provisional.
- The lawyers accused the justice system of being “captured” and supported ongoing dialogue on reforming the law governing the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
Venezuelan lawyers are demanding the restoration of institutional order at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, warning that 99% of the country’s judges are provisional.
The Constitutional Bloc raised the issue during Venezuela’s First Extraordinary Assembly of Lawyers. It denounced what it described as the “capture” of the justice system.
The group also backed the dialogue now under way to reform the Organic Law of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
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