The National Constituent Assembly approved, – on Monday-, by a constituent majority, the decree to break the parliamentary immunity to the National Assembly deputy, Freddy Guevara, leader of the (right wing) Voluntad Popular (People’s Will) party, who is being investigated for the «guarimbas» (riots) registered in the country among the months of April and June of this year, which left a tragic balance of 124 dead people.
María Alejandra Díaz, lawyer and Constituent, recalled on Tuesday, during an interview on VTV, that: «There can be no peace without justice» and «parliamentary immunity is not for killing people, neither for burning children, nor to use minors. in acts of violence».
«Guevara acted as a convener of violent acts that caused deaths and damage to private and public property; use of minors, an action gravely punished in international instances (…) He did not even act to prevent that from happening. Every day his call encouraged that kind of behavior».
She continued by pointing out that the parliamentary prerogative, clearly established in the Constitution of 1999, does not justify Guevara’s behavior: «It does not give him the right to commit a crime, nor that the State of justice can not act».
Regarding the decision adopted yesterday within the National Constituent Assembly, she explained that this was derived from the denounces made by a group of citizens before the Public Prosecutor’s Office in October of this year, after the access to justice was denied in May. on the part of the former attorney in exercise, Luisa Ortega Díaz. The Supreme Court of Justice studied the case and referred it to the ANC to continue the procedure.
Díaz recalled that the «National Constituent Assembly is the guarantor of peace in Venezuela», a supra-power that has a mandate based on the Constitution and with more than eight million votes.