Politics

Fait accompli (Updated)

Gustavo Hernández A.

sala-constitucional-tsjAs expected, the TSJ’s Constitutional Chamber has thrown out Henrique Capriles’s legal challenge to the 14-A presidential election.

24 hours earlier, Capriles had announced that he would not wait any longer for the TSJ and he will go straight to international justice.

UPDATE: Guess what? Rejecting the case wasn’t quite enough for the TSJ, so they gave Capriles a fine and ordered the Public Ministry to open an investigation against him “…for the grave offences and disrespectul terms used in his claims (regarding the Court and other State institutions)”. [HT: JC]

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(FILES) Venezuelan presidential pre-candidates for the opposition, Henrique Capriles (L) and Maria Corina Machado, attend a signing ceremony of the document "Common Principles of the Minimum Program of Government of Change, Unity, and National Restructuring" at Chacaito Theater in Caracas on August 4, 2023. Venezuela's Supreme Court, loyal to President Nicolas Maduro's government, on Friday January 26, 2024 disqualified opposition leader Maria Corina Machado -- who handily won a 2023 primary vote -- from seeking election this year. The court upheld a 15-year ban on Machado, 56, from holding public office, and also confirmed the ineligibility of a possible opposition stand-in -- two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)

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