The former General Attorney of the Republic, Isaías Rodríguez, warned Wednesday that the Public Prosecutor’s Office has lost its way by not meeting its duties, which has generated its decline in objectivity, credibility and respect for what is established in the Bolivarian Constitution.
«The Public Prosecutor’s Office has lost its objectivity, credibility, respect, balance, and seems to have been skewed with an eminently political criterion», he said, and mentioned that the PM (Public Ministry) cannot have a political criteria, and therefore he regretted the current situation.
In a telephone contact with Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), he asserted that the role of the PM is established in the Constitution and in the Organic Law of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, in the latter it expressly states that the actions of this institution must adapt its acts to criteria of objectivity, seeking the correct interpretation of the law, with a preeminence of justice.
«I feel that the bias that the current Prosecutor has given to the Public Ministry is dismantling the Public Ministry, is dismantling the Public Ministry as an institution. I feel that there is not a Public Ministry (…) It may exist in law, but from the operating point the Public Ministry is not fulfilling its duties», said Rodríguez.
He assured that the Prosecutor as an individual may have a political criteria, but the institution cannot have it, and added that from the institutional point of view, the highest authority of the Public Ministry has no authority to object the Constituent Assembly.
«The Constitutional control is not had by the Public Ministry per se, it has the ownership of the criminal action», he said.
