State protector
The figure does not appear in the Venezuelan Constitution or in any other legal regulation of the country, and the protectors usurp the function of receiving and directly administering the resources of the regional governments.State protectors are ad hoc figures that assume the functions of elected governors in the regions.The figure does not exist in the Venezuelan Constitution or in any other of the legal norms that regulate the political-territorial structure of the country, such as the Organic Law of Public Administration or the Organic Law of Decentralization, Delimitation and Transfer of Powers of the Public Power.The day before, in the evening hours, the Sole Authority of the Capital District, a new entity created by decree of President Hugo Chávez, which assumed powers taken away from Ledezma in the context of a reform, announced the transfer to the mayor's office of a "financial aid" of 52,000 bolivars (approximately US$24,186) so that the Metropolitan Mayor's Office, whose headquarters in Caracas also passed from Ledezma's hands to the newly created government of the Capital District, "may proceed to cancel, strictly" the payrolls for June and July, said a statement.[3] In 2012, the then opposition governor of Miranda state, Henrique Capriles, denounced this type of appointments when Nicolás Maduro created CorpoMiranda, an entity with regional public administration functions in which Elías Jaua, then foreign affairs minister and defeated when he was candidate for governor of Miranda in the regional elections of that year, had been appointed as director.