ND .- The national coordinator of Primer Justice and the National Assembly deputy, Julio Borges, considered the issue of justices of the peace “remains a challenge to widen the doors of justice in the country.” This was stated by leading a meeting organized by the Foundation for Municipal Studies.
According to the press release, Borges said that the issue of justices of the peace “is an element of cultural transformation that we must keep pushing.”
“Let us present the best ideas, to lobby the National Assembly and to leave a very good Justices of the Peace Act. The big bottleneck was the implementation of the magistrates at the time, was how specific the justice of peace, the main obstacle was and still is going through the checkpoint of the municipal councils, “he said.
He stressed that “the justice of the peace implementation in Petard Barite, Caracas, Yaracuy, Miranda, Bolivar, Carabobo and Aragua, among others, made small experiments could not be massive; it was something that could multiply the estimate of 5,000 justices of the peace for all Venezuela.”
“The big obstacle was the approval of the ordinances by the council, even in municipalities where the mayor and aldermen had approved the interest of justice of peace, he ate the maze of bureaucracy and approve a procedure for choosing justices of the peace, “he said.
He added that “there was another issue: the political zeal of some councilors and members of parish councils, seeing potential rivals to the justices of the peace, sometimes blocked the way to this community and public figure.”
“The fact that a rethink on the reform of the Act, a more direct mechanism for the election of justices of the peace is positive. The immediate question is how we are going to do well, passing the maze of the council, the problem of communal councils, “he said.
The congressman stressed that “in the Sucre municipality there are 350 community councils. 350 judges should be chosen peace, but the problem is that these community councils only have given the seal of approval to less than 10%.Magistrates have to go through a bureaucratic and political order to exist. “
“This whole process is tainted the political element. It will, says the law, a process of adaptation of the council, and I understand that lists the politicians pass filters, and to the extent that members appear or not appear, or not given the green light. It re-creates a plug to this element of participation, “he said.
Borges said that “when we believe in participation, look to be as autonomous and genuine, trying to make the state’s presence is a factor that helps rather slow and not what may be the person we believe in the principle of subsidiary, where the family, community and individual, are free to act on their own, but when the state decides to eat that study, subjects had to be about.”
“Anything other than law and order can be resolved by a magistrate, to achieve reconciliation between the parties. Is need for dialogue and reconciliation, let the clash in the country. The climate of violence is disturbing, the vaccine against violence is the culture of peace justice, “noted Borges.
In his opinion, “this culture of peace must be implemented in schools, colleges, communities, neighborhoods. To have a good project, the magistrates in the exercise at this time must make their proposals to reform this law. The country must open the debate and justice of peace is the first step. “
For his part, Dr. Jesus Maria Casals said that “adjustments are necessary to bring the Justice of Peace to the Constitution. There have been some efforts to promote access to justice, but they are hot washcloths, we have a slow justice, we have serious problems in access to justice, especially for the popular sectors. “
On Monday, the National Confederation of Transport and movement unified me down Gasoline justice submitted to the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Manuel GarcíaArévalo, for violation of the Hydrocarbons Law and not to provide information about the handling of such legislation.
