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Former political prisoners call for “recovering the separation of powers” through a new TSJ and CNE

A group of former Venezuelan political prisoners issued a declaration supporting the 2015 National Assembly's efforts to 'recover the separation of powers' by replacing the Supreme Court (TSJ) and National Electoral Council (CNE).

Tracked question

How many political prisoners are held, and is the trend improving? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: political prisoners, presos politicos

What would settle it: Foro Penal's monthly count falling for two consecutive months with named releases.

Evidence state: insufficientas of Sep 13, 2026changed from emerging → insufficientnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Former political prisoners in Venezuela issued a declaration supporting the 2015 National Assembly's 'negotiation and reinstitutionalization' process.

The declaration argues that the 2015 parliamentary majority had the authority to appoint new CNE rectors and TSJ magistrates, which would have contained executive abuses.

The signatories criticize the TSJ and Fiscalía for weakening the separation of powers and consolidating authoritarianism.

They question the TSJ's failure to order the CNE to publish the electoral records from the July 28, 2024 presidential elections.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-13 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.