[NYTr] Venezuela: Oppos'n Seeks to "Annul" Const'l Changes
 
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:52:45 -0500 (CDT)

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El Universal - Sep 18, 2007
http://english.eluniversal.com/2007/09/18/en_pol_art_opposition-cnr-reque_18A1038397.shtml

Opposition CNR requests annulment of ChC!vez initiative

Hermman EscarrC!, an attorney specialized in constitutional law,
appeared Tuesday at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) to make a
motion to vacate the changes to the Constitution submitted by President
Hugo ChC!vez.

The university professor acted on behalf of opposition Comando Nacional
de la Resistencia (CNR) and was accompanied by CNR leaders Oscar PC)rez,
Antonio Ledezma, Helen FernC!ndez and Italo Luongo.

"In the appeal filed with the TSJ Constitutional Court, the action
taken by President ChC!vez is challenged because it is a coup on
democracy and the Constitution by means of an extra-constitutional
mechanism, and because, among other reasons, it alters the structure of
the text, forces, undermines and damages constitutional principles and
values," he explained.

EscarrC! clarified, however, that the appeal at the judiciary is just a
ceremony because they did not expect "much from the Constitutional
Court, except for recording the President's coup both on democracy and
the Constitution."

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