AN of 2020 appoints committee to appoint new prosecutor, comptroller and defender
The 2020 National Assembly appointed a commission of deputies this Thursday to elect a new attorney generalcomptroller general and ombudsmanmembers of the country’s Citizen Power.
During the plenary session, Chavista representative Carolina García explained that the Citizen Power – which includes the Attorney General’s Office, the Comptroller General’s Office and the Ombudsman’s Office – was included in the Constitution approved in 1999 as a branch of the Public Power, breaking with the “classical structure.” » in the division of powers.
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National Assembly approves appointment of the Evaluation Committee pic.twitter.com/h3oYY3mR8W Nominations for the appointment of the new Defender, Attorney General and Comptroller of Venezuela. President: Giuseppe Alesandro First VP: José Gregorio Correa Second VP: Desirée…— Report Now (@ReporteYa) October 10, 2024
Who makes up the committee to choose the new prosecutor, comptroller and defender?
The president of the commission will be the pro-government deputy Giuseppe Alessandrello.
The rest of the legislators that make up the committee are the Chavistas Desirée Santos Amaral, Carolina García, José Oscar Villarroel, María Gabriela Vega, Gloria Mercedes Castillo, Ginkellys Gutiérrez, Nicia Maldonado, Nancy Ascencio and Fernando Bastidas, as well as the opponents José Gregorio Correa , Alfonso Campos and Timoteo Zambrano.
In August 2017, the defunct National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a forum made up solely of ruling parties that exercised incontestable powers in the country for two years, appointed Tarek William Saab as attorney general. after approving the dismissal of Luisa Ortega Díaz, as well as his disqualification from holding any public office.
The ANC accused Ortega of committing “immoral acts,” and her husband, former Chavista deputy Germán Ferrer, of being part of an extortion plot that allegedly operated from lto the Prosecutor’s Office.
Subsequently, in October 2018, the National Constituent Assembly appointed the official Elvis Amoroso as the new comptroller general, who held the position until 2023, when he left it to be named president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), where he remains to this day.
According to Venezuelan legislation, the appointments of the comptroller, prosecutor and defender correspond to Parliament, then controlled by the opposition and declared in “contempt” by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), so the ANC made use of its plenipotentiary nature to assume these tasks.
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