Opposition Copei party is to make a petition at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice for the National Assembly (AN) to regulate President Hugo Chávez electoral campaign.

Copei Secretary-General César Pérez Vivas labeled as abuse the president's "unleashed political activism."

He underscored that last weekend there was evidence of the "whole state machinery used for political activism. Even a governor declared the amount of buses brought from his local government, the number of buses retained by his local government. It is a commingling of state and party assets, of state goals and the goals of a political sector. They are using all the society's resources to remain in office in an illegitimate, immoral manner."

Copei reckons that the legislature has failed to fulfill its responsibilities under the Constitution, as it has not enacted a law to regulate the president's actions as candidate.