Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): The National Electoral Council (CNE) said that it would abide by the Supreme Justice Tribunal (TSJ) ruling in favor of Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russian's ban against 272 aspiring candidates for the November elections.
The statement Wednesday by CNE vice president Janeth Hernandez followed speculation that the CNE might still accept some of the people on Russian's list when registration of candidates starts on August 5.
Mayor Leopoldo Lopez of the Chacao municipality in central Caracas, one of several prominent opposition figures barred by Russian, has said he intends to turn up at the CNE to register. Hernandez' remarks suggested Lopez is in for a wasted journey. "He who appears in the codes of the 'inhabilitations' will be told he cannot put himself forward," she said on state television channel VTV.
In an apparent reference to banned candidates, she added that there could not be any return to "setting the country on fire for personal interests, the laws have to be respected." The 'inhabilitados' also had to respect Russian's decision and the Constitution, too.
Hernandez said the Bolivarian Constitution stipulated that voting was a right rather than a duty, unlike its predecessors which obliged the people to vote.
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