Today ought to be a day for posting about 12 grapes and midnight luggage-toting strolls, not Christian friggin' Zerpa. If I had any choice in the matter, that's what I'd be writing about. But I don't, so I won't.
The Supreme Tribunal has just approved a temporary measure suspending the election of four assembly members: three from MUD, one from PSUV. Effective immediately.
Rather than the voters, it will be a tribunal that has never ruled against the government that will decide who sits in the National Assembly. It's a dangerous move.
The newly re-packed, 100% chavista Supreme Tribunal's Electoral Chamber has just received six separate impugnaciones (legal challenges) against deputies elected by MUD on December 6th.
Landmark ruling of the Constitution's Article 3 threatens to destabilize the country still further ahead of a delicate parliamentary handover on January 5th.
If you're going to read just one thing this week, forget the intramural MUD histrionics and read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's takedown of OPEC's World Oil Outlook.
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