Venezuela's National Assembly board during the approval of the Communal Justice of Peace Law reform, on November 12, 2024. Photo: Venezuelan National Assembly.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has congratulated the deputies of the National Assembly (AN) on the approval of the Partial Reform Project of the Organic Law of Communal Justice of Peace.
The head of state said this Tuesday, November 12, that the reform of the legal instrument “will allow progress in the steps taken towards the improvement in the territoriality of the Venezuelan justice system.”
The reform is enabled such that access to the law can be “ever closer to the common man and woman, in their community, empowering the people, to continue consolidating participatory, leading democracy, of law and justice, true democracy, inclusive, and convening for national peace,” Maduro wrote in a message published on his Telegram account.
He also instructed that progress was to be made in the election of justices of peace in the nation’s local communities.
Communal Justice of Peace Law
The Venezuelan Parliament approved by a qualified majority the Bill for Partial Reform of the Organic Law on Communal Justice of Peace during its second discussion earlier on Tuesday.
The president of the National Assembly, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, urged his fellow parliamentarians to ensure that this law reaches “every corner, every town” in the country, and asked that they monitor the peremptory approval of its regulations, after it is put forward by President Maduro, in order to determine where it needs to go further.
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“Let us keep tabs on its applicability,” he insisted. “We are certain that this law will be fundamental in the process of improving and revolutionizing the judiciary.”
The parliamentary leader emphasized that “it is enough that money rules in the courts!” referring to the part of the legal text that requires cleaning up the corruption running in some of the country’s courts.
(Últimas Noticias) by Kleybergel Gonzalez with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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