Constitutional Chamber declined interpretation recourse related to Voluntad Popular party

After the appeal filed by the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, on May 25, to determine if the Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) party is a terrorist organization, and if it is subject to sanctions, the Constitutional Chamber declared itself incompetent to know and declined its knowledge before the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of the remedy of interpretation of articles 31 and 32 of the Organic Law against Organized Crime and Financing of Terrorism, in accordance with the provisions of article 335 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The aforementioned appeal, as indicated by the plaintiff, seeks to determine whether the organization for political purposes “Voluntad Popular” is or not a criminal organization with terrorist purposes, and consequently should be dissolved.

Saab specified that said dissolution would respond to the provisions of the Law on Political Parties, Public Meetings and Demonstrations, the Constitutional Law against Hate, for Peaceful Coexistence and Tolerance, and the Organic Law against Organized Crime and Financing of Terrorism.

The ruling of the TSJ is about decision No. 0073-2020 of the Constitutional Chamber, with a presentation by magistrate Rene Alberto Degraves Almarza.