Blyde maintains that the TSJ must rule on validity of El Calvario vote

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic news Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Primero Justicia (PJ)  National Assembly deputy Gerardo Blyde dismisses President Chavez Frias' threat to sue opposition deputies for alleged disruption of parliament as ridiculous. "There is a political objective behind the threats made by the President last Sunday." 

Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ)The constitutional lawyer brands such an action "absurd" and calls the President's bluff saying the move is just a smokescreen to divert attention from what is really happening, namely the dismantling of Venezuela's parliamentary institution by attempting to change the rules of the game which should be clear and "complied with from Assembly president to the least of the deputies." 

Blyde accuses AN president, Francisco Ameliach of violating current AN regulation and insists that it is up to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ)  to issue a ruling on the validity of the parliamentary session held outside the Capitolio in El Calvario last Friday during which the majority government bench passed a partial reform bill on the internal debate regulation.