National Assembly of Venezuela

National Assembly of Venezuela

Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela
National Assembly of Venezuela ; Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela
V National Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	20 December 1999; 25 years ago
Preceded by	Congress of Venezuela
New session started	5 January 2021
Leadership
President	Jorge Rodríguez, PSUV ; since 5 January 2021
First Vice President	Pedro José Infante, PSUV ; since 5 January 2023
Second Vice President	América Pérez, PSUV ; since 5 January 2023
Majority Leader	Tania Díaz, PSUV ; since 24 October 2024
Minority Leader	José Gregorio Correa, AD ; since 5 January 2021
Structure
Seats	277
Political groups	Government (256) GPPSB (253) PSUV (219); PPT (8); MRT (7); MSV (5); PODEMOS (4); APC (3); MEP (3); ORA (2); UPV (2); ; Indigenous seats (3); Others (21) AD (11); AP (3); El Cambio (3); PV (2); Copei (1); PCV (1);
Committees	15 standing committees
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	Parallel voting:; Party-list proportional representation (144 seats); First-past-the-post (133 seats)
First election	30 July 2000
Last election	6 December 2020 (partial recognition)
Next election	By 7 December 2025
Meeting place
	Federal Legislative Palace; Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela
Website
	www.asambleanacional.gob.ve
Constitution
	Constitution of Venezuela

The National Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Nacional) is the federal legislature of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which was first elected in 2000 under the 1999 constitution. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members, who are elected by a "universal, direct, personal, and secret" vote partly by direct election in state-based voting districts, and partly on a state-based party-list proportional representation system.

Each of the 23 States and the Capital District elects no less than three representatives plus the result of dividing the state population by 1.1% of the total population of the country.^[1] Three seats are reserved for representatives of Venezuela's indigenous peoples and elected separately by all citizens, not just those with indigenous backgrounds. For the 2010 to 2015 the number of seats was 165.^[2]

Deputies to the National Assembly serve a five-year term and may be re-elected for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The National Assembly meets in the Federal Legislative Palace in Venezuela's capital, Caracas.

Legislative history

1961 Constitution

Under its previous 1961 Venezuelan Constitution [es], Venezuela had a bicameral legislature, known as the Congress (Congreso). This Congress was composed of a Senate of Venezuela (Senado) and a Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados).

The Senate was made up of two senators per state, two for the Federal District, and a number of ex officio senators intended to represent the nation's minorities. In addition, former presidents (those elected democratically or their replacements legally appointed to serve at least half a presidential term) were awarded lifetime senate seats. Senators were required to be Venezuelan-born citizens and over the age of 30.

The members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected by direct universal suffrage, with each state returning at least two. Deputies had to be at least 21 years old.

The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies were each led by a President, and both performed their functions with the help of a Directorial Board. The President of Senate of Venezuela held the additional title of "President of the Congress", and was the constitutional successor of the President of Venezuela in case of a vacancy.^[3] This succession took place in 1993, when Octavio Lepage succeeded Carlos Andrés Pérez.

1999 Constitution

President Hugo Chávez was first elected in December 1998 on a platform calling for a National Constituent Assembly to be convened to draft a new constitution for Venezuela. Chávez's argument was that the existing political system, under the earlier 1961 Constitution, had become isolated from the people. In the Constituent Assembly elections held on 25 July 1999, all but six seats were given to candidates associated with the Chávez movement. The National Constituent Assembly (ANC), consisting of 131 elected individuals, convened in August 1999 to begin rewriting the constitution. The ANC's proposed constitution was approved in a referendum on 15 December 1999 and came into effect the following 20 December.

2017 constitutional crisis

On 29 March 2017, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) stripped the elected National Assembly of its constitutional powers, ruling that all powers would be transferred to the Supreme Court. The previous year the court found the assembly in contempt for swearing in legislators whose elections had been deemed invalid by the court.^[4] The 2017 court judgement declared that the "situation of contempt" meant that the assembly could not exercise its powers.^[5] The action transferred powers from the Assembly, which had an opposition majority since January 2016,^[5] to the Supreme Court, which has a majority of government loyalists.^[4] The move was denounced by the opposition with Assembly President Julio Borges describing the action as a coup d'état by President Nicolás Maduro.^[4] However, after public protests and condemnation by international bodies, the court's decision was reversed a few days later on 1 April.^[6]^[7]

On 4 August 2017, Venezuela convened a new Constituent National Assembly after a special election which was boycotted by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and other opposition parties.^[6] The new Constituent Assembly is intended to rewrite the constitution; it also has wide legal powers allowing it to rule above all other state institutions. The Constituent Assembly met within the Federal Legislative Palace; while the leadership of the National Assembly had said it would continue its work as a legislature and it would still continue to meet in the same building.^[8]

On 18 August the Constituent Assembly summoned the members of the National Assembly to attend a ceremony acknowledging its legal superiority; the opposition members of the National Assembly boycotted the event.^[9] In response, the Constituent Assembly stripped the National Assembly of its legislative powers, assuming them for itself.^[10] It justified the move by claiming that the National Assembly had failed to prevent what it called "opposition violence" in the form of the 2017 Venezuelan protests.^[11] The constitutionality of this move has been questioned, and it has been condemned by several foreign governments and international bodies.^[10]^[12]

2020 contested leadership election

The 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election of 5 January, to elect the Board of Directors of the National Assembly was disrupted. The events resulted in two competing claims for the Presidency of the National Assembly: one by deputy Luis Parra and one by Juan Guaidó.^[13] Parra was formerly a member of Justice First, but was expelled from the party on 20 December 2019 based on corruption allegations, which he denies. From inside the legislature, Parra declared himself president of the National Assembly; a move that was welcomed by Maduro administration.^[14] The opposition disputed this outcome, saying that quorum had not been achieved and no votes had been counted.^[14] Police forces had blocked access to parliament to some opposition members, including Guaidó, and members of the media. Later in the day, a separate session was carried out at the headquarters of El Nacional newspaper, where 100 of the 167 deputies voted to re-elect Guaidó as president of the parliament.^[14] In his speech, Guaidó announced his resignation from Popular Will.^[15]

Guaidó was sworn in a session on 7 January after forcing his way in through police barricades. Parra has reiterated his claim to the presidency of the parliament.^[16]

Membership

Any Venezuelan citizen by birth or naturalization, with at least fifteen years of residence in Venezuelan territory, who is 21 years of age or older, is eligible to be elected as a deputy to the National Assembly. However, the same person cannot hold the office of President or Vice President of the Republic, Minister, Secretary of the Presidency, or hold senior positions in Autonomous Institutes or State-owned companies, until three months after leaving these positions. Additionally, state governors, secretaries of government, and other officials at the municipal, state, or national level in the jurisdiction where the election takes place are also ineligible unless holding accidental, assistance, teaching, or academic positions.

A deputy of the National Assembly cannot own, manage, or direct companies that contract with state entities, nor can they manage private lucrative interests with such entities. Deputies are obliged to abstain from voting on issues where they have an economic conflict of interest. Moreover, they are not allowed to accept or exercise other public offices without losing their status as deputies, except for teaching, academic, or assistance activities that do not require full-time dedication.

Structure and powers

Under the current Bolivarian 1999 Constitution, the legislative branch of Government in Venezuela is represented by a unicameral National Assembly. The Assembly is currently made up of 277 seats^[17]. Officials are elected by "universal, direct, personal, and secret" vote on a national party-list proportional representation system.^[18] In addition, three deputies are returned on a state-by-state basis, and three seats are reserved for representatives of Venezuela's indigenous peoples.^[18]

All deputies serve five-year terms and must appoint a replacement (suplente) to stand in for them during periods of incapacity or absence.^[18] Under the 1999 constitution deputies could be reelected on up to two terms (Art. 192); under the 2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum these term limits were removed.^[19] Deputies must be Venezuelan citizens by birth, or naturalized Venezuelans with a period of residency in excess of 15 years; older than 21 on the day of the election; and have lived in the state for which they seek election during the previous four years (Art. 188).^[18]

Beyond passing legislation (and being able to block any of the president's legislative initiatives), the National Assembly has a number of specific powers outlined in Article 187, including approving the budget, initiating impeachment proceedings against most government officials (including ministers and the Vice President, but not the President, who can only be removed through a recall referendum) and appointing the members of the electoral, judicial, and prosecutor's branches of government.^[18] Among others it also has the power to authorize foreign and domestic military action and to authorize the President to leave the national territory for more than 5 days.

The Assembly is led by a President with 2 Vice Presidents, and together with a secretary and an assistant secretary, they form the Assembly Directorial Board, and when it is on recess twice a year, they lead a Standing Commission of the National Assembly together with 28 other MPs^{[citation needed]}.

Since 2010 the Assembly's 15 Permanent Committees, created by the 2010 Assembly Rules, are composed by MPs (ranging from the minimum of 7 to the maximum of 25) tackling legislation of various issues.^[18] The Committees' offices are housed in the José María Vargas Building in Caracas, few hundred yards from the Federal Legislative Palace, the former building is also where the offices of the Assembly leadership are located.^[20]

Electoral system

In the 2000 Venezuelan parliamentary election, representatives were elected under a mixed member proportional representation, with 60% elected in single seat districts and the remainder by closed party list proportional representation.^[21] This was an adaptation of the system previously used for the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies,^[22] which had been introduced in 1993, with a 50-50 balance between single seat districts and party lists,^[23] and deputies per state proportional to population, but with a minimum of three deputies per state.^[24]

Political composition

The first election of deputies to the new National Assembly took place on 30 July 2000. President Hugo Chávez' Fifth Republic Movement won 92 seats (56%). The opposition did not participate in the 2005 elections, and as a result gained no seats, while the Fifth Republic Movement gained 114 (69%). In 2007 a number of parties, including the Fifth Republic Movement, merged to create the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which in January 2009 held 139 of the 169 seats (82%). In the 2010 election, for which the number of deputies was reduced to 165, the PSUV won 96 seats (58%), the opposition electoral coalition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) 65, and Patria Para Todos won 2.

At the 2015 parliamentary election, the MUD won 109 of the 164 general seats and all three indigenous seats, which gave them a supermajority in the National Assembly; while the government's own coalition, the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), won the remaining 55 seats. Voter turnout exceeded 70 percent.^[25]

The result, however, was marred by the January 2016 suspension from the National Assembly by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of 4 elected members of Parliament (MPs) from Amazonas state due to alleged voter fraud and election irregularities. 3 of the 4 were opposition deputies and one was from the government's coalition (GPP). ^{[citation needed]}

Following the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election the new Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly was inaugurated which has the power to rule over all other state institutions and rewrite the constitution. As of May 2019, the Constituent Assembly mandate is expected to expire on 31 December 2020 (after next National Assembly elections), a measure that replaces the previous resolution of August 2017 that established its validity for at least two years.^[26]

In 2020, Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela and allied parties claimed to have captured 67 percent of seats in the National Assembly, but that election was also disputed by EU and U.S. officials. Nevertheless, since then Maduro has exercised majority control of the Venezuelan parliament, displacing Juan Guaidó from his oppositional presidency.^[27]

Members

Board of Directors


Office		Party
President of the National Assembly	Jorge Jesús Rodríguez Gómez	PSUV
First Vice President of the National Assembly	Pedro José Infante Aparicio	PSUV
Second Vice President of the National Assembly	América Valentina Pérez Dávila	PSUV

Standing committees


Committee		Party
Standing Committee on Eco-socialism	Ricardo Antonio Molina Peñaloza	PSUV
Standing Committee on Indigenous Peoples	Nicia Marina Maldonado Maldonado	PSUV
Standing Committee on the People's Power and Communication	Juan Carlos Alemán Pérez	PSUV
Standing Committee on Education, Health, Science, Technology and Innovation	Ricardo Ignacio Sánchez Mujica	APC
Standing Committee on Culture and Recreation	Cristobal Leobardo Jiménez	PSUV
Standing Committee on Families, Freedom of Religion and Worship	Asia Yajaira Villegas Poljak	PSUV
Standing Committee on Administration and Services	Pedro Miguel Carreño Escobar	PSUV
Standing Committee on Foreign Policy, Sovereignty and Integration	Timoteo De Jesus Zambrano Guedez	CMC
Standing Committee on Internal Policy	María Gabriela Vega Sosa	PSUV
Standing Committee on Comptrollership	Willian Rafael Gil Calderón	PSUV
Standing Committee on Economy, Finance and National Development	Jesús Germán Faría Tortosa	PSUV
Standing Committee on Energy and Petroleum	Ángel Luis Rodríguez Gamboa	PSUV
Standing Committee on the Security and Defense of the Nation	Jesús Rafael Suárez Chourio	PSUV
Standing Committee on Comprehensive Social Development	Rodolfo Antonio Crespo Grismaldo	PSUV
Standing Committee on the Development of Communes	Blanca Rosa Eekhout Gómez	PSUV

Latest election



Party or alliance				Party-list			Constituency			Total seats
Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	Great Patriotic Pole		United Socialist Party of Venezuela	3,910,197	62.43	123	6,780,121	61.69	130	253
			Tupamaro^[i]	99,747	1.59	0	175,232	1.59	0	0
			Fatherland for All^[i]	87,994	1.41	0	146,606	1.33	0	0
			Movement We Are Venezuela	66,500	1.06	0	114,178	1.04	0	0
			For Social Democracy	52,104	0.83	0	86,744	0.79	0	0
			People's Electoral Movement	33,316	0.53	0	57,724	0.53	0	0
			Alliance for Change	31,114	0.50	0	51,830	0.47	0	0
			Authentic Renewal Organization	21,408	0.34	0	38,434	0.35	0	0
			Venezuelan Popular Unity	19,595	0.31	0	30,402	0.28	0	0
		Total		4,321,975	69.01	123	7,481,271	68.07	130	253
	Democratic Action^[i]			433,334	6.92	11	785,443	7.15	0	11
	Esperanza por El Cambio			284,315	4.54	3	537,428	4.89	0	3
	Democratic Alliance		Progressive Advance	156,248	2.49	3	332,727	3.03	0	3
			Ecological Movement of Venezuela	67,550	1.08	0	86,813	0.79	0	0
			Cambiemos Movimiento Ciudadano	52,588	0.84	0	99,043	0.90	0	0
		Total		276,386	4.41	3	518,583	4.72	0	3
	United Venezuela		Venezuela First	187,264	2.99	2	311,628	2.84	0	2
			Popular Will^[i]	44,268	0.71	0	79,647	0.72	0	0
			United Venezuela	29,188	0.47	0	51,684	0.47	0	0
		Total		260,720	4.16	2	442,959	4.03	0	2
	Copei^[i]			175,840	2.81	1	293,663	2.67	0	1
	Communist Party of Venezuela			170,352	2.72	1	303,535	2.76	0	1
	Solutions for Venezuela			99,649	1.59	0	187,988	1.71	0	0
	Movement for Socialism			77,311	1.23	0	136,185	1.24	0	0
	Union and Progress			53,197	0.85	0	95,962	0.87	0	0
	ProCitizens			44,358	0.71	0	82,323	0.75	0	0
	Popular Political Unit 89			19,179	0.31	0	37,197	0.34	0	0
	New Vision for My Country			16,046	0.26	0	30,641	0.28	0	0
	Organised Independent Party			7,327	0.12	0	13,341	0.12	0	0
	Future Vision of Miranda			1,760	0.03	0	2,910	0.03	0	0
	New Pact			1,721	0.03	0	3,097	0.03	0	0
	Advanced Regional Movement			1,666	0.03	0	2,054	0.02	0	0
	Revolucionario Independiente Organizado Social			1,624	0.03	0	2,982	0.03	0	0
	Guayana Project			1,448	0.02	0	3,464	0.03	0	0
	Neighborhood Force			1,427	0.02	0	2,575	0.02	0	0
	Zuliana Action Party			1,366	0.02	0	1,797	0.02	0	0
	Democratic Prosperity Movement			1,150	0.02	0	2,009	0.02	0	0
	Socialist Renewal Movement			1,137	0.02	0	1,139	0.01	0	0
	United Aragua			1,059	0.02	0	1,937	0.02	0	0
	United Multi-Ethnic Peoples of Amazonas			1,045	0.02	0	3,143	0.03	0	0
	Caracas for All			981	0.02	0	1,707	0.02	0	0
	Aragua Democratic Platform			871	0.01	0	1,614	0.01	0	0
	Carabobans for Carabobo			843	0.01	0	2,061	0.02	0	0
	Sovereign Unity			792	0.01	0	1,562	0.01	0	0
	Renovación En Democracia Nacimiento Alternativo			620	0.01	0	1,153	0.01	0	0
	Play Fair			510	0.01	0	1,165	0.01	0	0
	PAM			459	0.01	0	774	0.01	0	0
	Everyone United for Amazonas			431	0.01	0	1,314	0.01	0	0
	Orinoco-South			335	0.01	0	999	0.01	0	0
	Independent Merideños Progressives			319	0.01	0	321	0.00	0	0
	Independent Lara			307	0.00	0	952	0.01	0	0
	New People Project			242	0.00	0	389	0.00	0	0
	Allied Democrats of Free Expression			201	0.00	0	388	0.00	0	0
	Change and Restructuring for Amazonas State			174	0.00	0	520	0.00	0	0
	Independent People			149	0.00	0	155	0.00	0	0
	Tinaquillo is First			140	0.00	0	243	0.00	0	0
	Yacimiento Indigenista Venezolano Independiente			122	0.00	0	238	0.00	0	0
	Sucre Awakens Liberation Movement						917	0.01	0	0
Indigenous seats										3
Total				6,262,888	100.00	144	10,990,098	100.00	130	277

Valid votes				6,262,888	99.29
Invalid/blank votes				45,088	0.71
Total votes				6,307,976	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				20,710,421	30.46
Source: CNE

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Intervened^[18]^[15]

Allocation of Seats per State (2021–2026)

Federal Entity		Number of Deputies			Map
Federal Entity		Party-list seats	Constituencies	Total	Map
	Amazonas	3	3	6
	Anzoátegui	8	7	4
	Apure	3	3	6
	Aragua	5	7	12
	Barinas	4	7	11
	Bolívar	4	6	10
	Carabobo	6	10	16
	Cojedes	3	3	6
	Delta Amacuro	3	3	6
	Dependencias Federales	—	—	—
	Distrito Capital	5	8	13
	Falcón	3	4	7
	Guárico	3	4	7
	Lara	5	8	13
	Mérida	3	4	7
	Miranda	8	11	19
	Monagas	3	4	7
	Nueva Esparta	3	3	6
	Portuguesa	3	4	7
	Sucre	4	3	7
	Táchira	4	5	9
	Trujillo	3	4	7
	Vargas	3	3	6
	Yaracuy	3	3	6
	Zulia	10	15	25
	Indigenous Representation Western, Eastern and Southern Regions	—	3	3
	Venezuela	144	133	277

Historical composition of the National Assembly

Chavismo

Others

Opposition

2000

98

67

2005

164

3

2010

98

2

65

2015

55

112

2020

256

21

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External links

1999 Constitution (unofficial English translation)
(in Spanish) National Assembly website
(in Spanish) Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela (html)
(in Spanish) Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela (pdf)
(in Spanish) 1961 Constitution amended as of 1983

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[I-30] Intervened^[18]^[15]

[1] "Ley Orgánica de Procesos Electorales" (in Spanish). Consejo Nacional Electoral. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2011.

[2] "Dos mil 719 candidatos se disputarán los curules de la Asamblea Nacional" (in Spanish). Venezolana de Televisión. Archived from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[CNN_diss-4] Romo, Rafael. "Venezuela's high court dissolves National Assembly". cnn.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.

[NY_diss1-5] Casey, Nicolas; Torres, Patrica (30 March 2017). "Venezuela Moves a Step Closer to One-Man Rule". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

[hupo_timeline-6] Robins-Early, Nick (7 August 2017). "A Timeline of Venezuela's Months of Protests And Political Crisis". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.

[7] Sandhu, Serina (15 August 2017). "Venezuela crisis: How a socialist government has managed to make its people poorer". Archived from the original on 20 August 2017.

[8] "La Asamblea Nacional continuará sesionando y trabajando desde el Palacio Federal Legislativo". La Patilla (in European Spanish). 4 August 2017. Archived from the original on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.

[9] Sanchez, Fabiola (18 August 2017). "Pro-Government Assembly in Venezuela Takes Congress' Powers". US News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.

[wapo_18aug-10] Krygier, Rachelle; Faiola, Anthony (18 August 2017). "Venezuela's pro-government assembly moves to take power from elected congress". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.

[11] Mogollon, Mery; McDonnell, Patrick (19 August 2017). "Venezuela congress rejects what it denounces as government takeover". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.

[12] Graham-Harrison, Emma; López, Virginia (19 August 2017). "President Maduro strips Venezuela's parliament of power". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.

[13] "Two Venezuela lawmakers declare themselves Speaker". 6 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[APblockedcongresJanuary-14] Sánchez, Fabiola (5 January 2020). "Guaidó blocked from congress as Venezuelan conflict deepens". Associated Press. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[:10-15] "Juan Guaidó renunció a su partido Voluntad Popular para dedicarse a la presidencia interina de Venezuela". Infobae (in Spanish). 5 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.

[16] Sanchez, Fabiola (7 January 2020). "Venezuela opposition leader takes new oath amidst standoff". Associated Press. Retrieved 7 January 2020.

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