Latinnews Daily - 31 March 2004

The Sala Electoral, one of the four specialist elements of the supreme court, has asked the full, 20 member, supreme court to rule on whether the Sala Constitucional was right to overrule it last week. The Sala Constitucional ruled that the Sala Electoral was not competent to rule on the issue of whether the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) was right to order the double-checking of dodgy signatures on the opposition petition. The Sala Constitucional also ruled that it alone could decide on this issue and, furthermore, that it had already ruled that the CNE's actions were correct.

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