Congressional leaders defend reform

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The presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will appear before the Fifth Civil Chamber of the Court of First Instance for the National District today to defend the legality of the constitutional reform process by way of a National Assembly acting as a Revisory Assembly. This follows an appeal filed by several entities that believe that the process should be carried out through a Constituent Assembly open to others in addition to legislators. Reinaldo Pared Perez and Julio Cesar Valentin were summoned to appear before this court that accepted the appeals case presented by the organizations known as Forum for the Constituent and the Alternative Summit. The hearings are expected to get under way at 9 o'clock this morning. Pared Perez maintained that this trial would not in the least impede the constitutional reform from going ahead because the Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch are two separate powers of the state. Valentin added that he would take all necessary measures to defend the legitimacy of the constitutional reform process.

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