Judge Tania D'Amelio: Justices of the Peace will be held accountable to the community every six months

Published at: 16/12/2024 10:38 PM

The organized communities that elected their communal judges and justices of the peace will be able to have a comptroller mechanism to ensure the monitoring of the conduct of the neighbors elected to occupy the positions established by the Organic Law of the Special Jurisdiction for Communal Peace, explained the president of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Tania D'Amelio.

During an interview on the 360º program, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, he explained that in the same law “we have placed a very important provision, that judges must report to the Assembly of Citizens and Citizens every six months, which is the highest expression of Popular Power, so that the same community will follow up if it complies with the established rules.”

“Likewise, if there is a person who does not respect the rule, who does not do the right thing, well, even the neighbors, the People's Power can go to a trial so that he is not a judge or justice of the peace,” he said.

However, D'Amelio stressed that in the elections this Sunday, December 15, communities and communal councils recognized that person who was elected, for his high moral authority, firmness and solidarity with the inhabitants, in recognition of his positive presence for peace and coexistence.

“That the Supreme Court, after they go to the formation process, we are going to accredit them and the Public Ministry will know that this person is the judge or judge of that electoral circuit, and whatever type of situation that arises, I refer them to the Public Ministry and they must, then, follow the appropriate steps, because she or he is a judge or justice of the peace accredited by the Supreme Court of Justice to and as an authority because it was elected by the community,” he said.

The magistrate stressed that the importance of this election is that those elected as judges of the peace will exercise primary justice, not ordinary ordinary justice.

“This is primary justice, primary care. When you go to the Judicial Revolution process, you find that there are cases that were prosecuted in a community because of a minor conflict that occurred on a court,” he mentioned as an example.

In that regard, he stated that it is unnecessary for the person complained of to be detained for five, six, seven years for a case that occurred in the community. “That's why I say: it's primary justice, it's not ordinary justice, but it's timely justice, because by speaking we understand people. That man and woman who live in the community, may those neighbors who live permanently in the community be reunited,” he said.

In another example, he referred to annoying noises in communities, and on this subject there are coexistence ordinances, and the judge and the justice of the peace will have the knowledge to help ensure that that ordinance is also complied with. “What we want is to live in peace, to live in harmony, to meet again, to respect each other (...) The issue of justices of the peace is not a structure alien to the life of the community,” he summarized.

“What we want is to resolve these types of conflicts, so that I (as a judge) can articulate with my neighbors and make a call for attention; what we want is for a healthy coexistence in the territories, for there to be peace in that territory. What do I do? Well, I attract attention, I talk to the person and we look for space for understanding, so that people can live in peace,” he said.