In a meeting held at the Federal Legislative Palace, President Nicolás Maduro headed the Installation of the National Electoral Commission for the Election of Justices of the Peace, in a process scheduled for next December 15.
The meeting included the participation of the highest representatives of the Powers, the Legislative, Judicial, Electoral and Citizen, as well as the Executive Power, the People’s Power, with the objective of reviewing the details of this new electoral day in the communal circuits.
These elections coincide with the commemoration of the 25 years of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Last Sunday, November 17, during the closing of the first chapter of the Congress of the Historical Block, at the Cuartel de la Montaña (Mountain’s Barracks), in Caracas, the national President highlighted that the election of the Justices of the Peace will be carried out in conjunction with the people, marking a significant step towards greater citizen participation in the field of justice.
For his part, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, emphasized that the recent reform to the Law of Special Jurisdiction of Communal Justice of the Peace is in line with article 258 of the Constitution, which reads as follows: “The law will organize justice of the peace in the communities. The judges of the peace will be elected by universal, direct and secret vote, in accordance with the law. The law will promote arbitration, conciliation, mediation and any other alternative means for the resolution of conflicts.”
He added that this strategy is part of the fourth transformation of the 7T Plan for popular organization:
“A new State where the people feel justice directly in their homes, directly in their communities, without the intervention of any other element than the Constitution, the laws and the conciliatory nature of the justices of the peace,” said Rodríguez.
He stressed that this legal instrument will “save a number of procedures that only served to hinder the process of direct democracy, and will allow citizens to know the judges they have chosen, a very novel element that I do not think that exists in any country on this continent.”
