Chacao Mayor Leopoldo López gave on Wednesday a press conference where he said that upholding the decision of the Comptroller General Office to bar over 100 Venezuelans from political practice would mean a great blow to democracy.

López urged the judges of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) who are to decide over the legitimacy of the action to correct, in his opinion, a human right abuse and a violation both of the Venezuelan Constitution and the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights.

The mayor remembered that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Tuesday granted a complaint made by him last March 4th against the ban. That same day, he noted, Mercosur made an opinion on the issue of political ineligibility and announced a special commission to Venezuela in order to query about the subject.
 
He claimed that the Venezuelan case has gone beyond the borders and it is a question of preserving the Venezuelan democracy health.