Venezuela opens case against TV channel for breaking election rules
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[November 28, 2008]

Venezuela opens case against TV channel for breaking election rules

(EFE Ingles Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Caracas, Nov 28 (EFE).- Venezuela's telecommunications commission, known as Conatel, opened administrative proceedings against the private TV channel Globovision for the presumed violation of electoral regulations during the regional and municipal voting last Nov. 23.



"We welcome the new procedure and we're going to defend ourselves. We know this isn't a decision of Conatel, but of the president (Hugo Chavez)," said the head of Globovision, Alberto Ravell.

The proceedings were brought against the channel for transmitting live an address by the new governor of Carabobo state, Henrique Salas, when it still wasn't known if he had won, and in which he proclaimed himself the winner and incited his followers to take over the the seat of the local electoral committee.


"We put the two governors on the air who democratically made a denunciation, as did other channels," Ravell said.

The head of Globovision complained that neither Conatel nor the National Electoral Council, or CNE, is impartial because the law was repeatedly violated by the official media and by President Chavez himself.

Marcos Hernandez, a member of Conatel's board of social responsibility, said that Globovision erred in broadcasting Salas "giving a speech in which he incited people to take over the regional electoral committee to proclaim his victory, which at that time had not yet occurred." EFE

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Copyright ? 2008 EFE News Services (U.S.) Inc.

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