The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), which has become an opponent of the government of President Nicolás Maduro, was intervened in the last hours by the Supreme Court, which appointed a new board of directors, by admitting an injunction from a group of supporters who argues that the is currently illegal.
The sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that changes the directors of the PCV is similar to verdicts that that court issued in 2020 against the main opposition political parties.
The Constitutional Chamber of the TSJ appointed an “ad hoc board of directors” in the PCV to “organize the internal democratic processes that guarantee the rights to political participation of the associates,” the ruling indicates.
The leader who last July filed an appeal against the current leadership alleging that it excluded the bases of the organization, Henry Parra, was appointed to head the force.
The PCV was an ally of the late former president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), but broke with Maduro when the current president began to relax strict controls to try to reactivate the Venezuelan economy.
The general secretary of the deposed board, Óscar Figuera, had described those who filed the legal appeal as a “mercenary group” and accused them of “an anti-democratic maneuver,” the AFP news agency reported.
In a statement posted on its social networks in recent hours, the PCV denounced that “the Maduro government consummated the assault against the party through an arbitrary court ruling that endorses the imposition of a leadership made up of mercenaries.”
“This procedural fraud, which violates the political rights of the PCV and the Venezuelan working people, not only creates a serious precedent in the country’s political and legal history, but also exposes the authoritarian, anti-democratic and reactionary nature of the Government-Socialist Party United Kingdom of Venezuela that mistakenly believes that with this maneuver it will subdue the Venezuelan communists,” the text added.
In July 2020, the TSJ suspended the leadership of Voluntad Popular, the party of opposition exiles Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó.
The court placed deputy José Gregorio Noriega, Guaidó’s adversary, at the head of that organization, who was then recognized as president in charge of Venezuela by fifty governments.
And in June of that same year, the highest court had taken similar measures against two other major opposition parties: Acción Democrática and Primero Justicia.
Source: Ambito
