Ledezma is only the Mayor of Caracas, but puts airs of being the President
VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: "Caracas Metropolitan Mayor, Antonio Ledezma has slammed the government for double-talk on human rights, arguing that on the one hand, the government is defending the rights of the deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, while on the other hand, depriving the Caracas Metropolitan Mayor of his functions and attributes," VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reported July 2, 2009.
The Venezuelan Government has not deprived Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma of his functions and attributes. The governance of the Capital District in Caracas, under Article 156 (10) of the Venezuelan Constitution, is a function and attribute of the National Government ... not a function and attribute of the Caracas Metropolitan Mayor.
The "National Public Power" is the national government of Venezuela. Ledezma, a Mayor, is not the national government. So, Ledezma is not the national public power, although he pretends he is...
Article 156 (10) clearly delegates the organization and governance of the Capital District to the national government. But contrary to Article 156 (10), Ledezma goes around town everyday and tells lies that he is supposed to organize and govern the Capital District. A law passed by the National Assembly in March 2000 put the Capital District under the Metro Mayor. Another law passed in April 2009 took the Capital District away from the Metro Mayor. The 2009 law that took away the power of the Metro Mayor over the Capital District is just as legal and just consistent with Article 156 (10) of the Constitution as the law passed by National Assembly in 2000.
On April 14, 2009, we examined in detail Antonio Ledezma's lies and deceits about the Constitution, the law and the facts pertaining to the organization and governance of the Capital District, in a VHeadline.com piece titled "Who has a Constitutional right to govern the Capital District in Caracas?" We found Ledezma's arguments and representations about the law and about the facts as devoid of merit and as twisted as Ledezma is.
Citing his perverse ideas about law, the state, and constitutionality, Ledezma, in state of rage, defends the dictatorship established in Honduras on Sunday June 28, 2009 after the overthrow of democracy. Ledezma compares the refusal of the Honduran Supreme Court to allow an non-binding referendum on a rewrite of the constitution and the refusal, this year, of the National Electoral Council in Venezuela to grant his request for a consultative referendum on the 2009 Special Law on the Organization and Governance of the Capital District, a law which restores national power over the Capital District in Caracas to the detriment of the prestige of the metro Mayor.
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