This Thursday the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice declared admissible the constitutional protection action in defense of the advisory referendum of December 3 filed by the president and the board of directors of the National Assembly.
This appeal was submitted to the highest court by the deputies accompanied by the people last Wednesday, in order to protect the right to political participation with regard to the exercise of Venezuelan sovereignty in the territory of Guayana Esequiba.
As a consequence of this ruling, any action by foreign natural or legal persons, international organizations or national States will have no validity or legal effectiveness.
Likewise, actions that seek to hinder the exercise of sovereignty, territorial integrity and political participation in the consultative referendum “must be unknown by all the bodies that exercise public power, as well as by any natural or legal person in the precise terms of the articles 130 and 131 of the Fundamental Text.”
Sentence 1470 also orders the National Electoral Council to continue in its powers with the procedures that guarantee the right to political participation of Venezuelans in the Consultative Referendum of December 3, 2023.
Likewise, it ratifies the Republic’s denial of invalidity awards, such as the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899, in accordance with article 10 of the Magna Carta.
It also declares that the Law approving the Geneva Agreement, of February 17, 1966, is the only valid instrument of international law to achieve the peaceful resolution of the territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela.
In this sense, it orders the citizen President of the Republic, in the exercise of his powers, to continue defending the sovereign right of the Republic over Guayana Esequiba, in accordance with article 152 of the Magna Carta.
On November 14 and 15, the government of Guyana ratified before the International Court of Justice its request for provisional measures against the consultative referendum called by the National Assembly to consult the people about the exercise of sovereignty in the Venezuelan territory of Guayana Esequiba.
