The National Electoral Council is the head of one of the five branches of government of Venezuela under its 1999 constitution. It is the institution that has the responsibility of overseeing and guaranteeing the transparency of all elections and referendums in Venezuela at the local,regional,and national levels. The creation of the CNE was ratified in Venezuela's 1999 constitutional referendum. Following the election of Nicolás Maduro into the presidency,the CNE has been described,by the president's opponents,as being pro-Maduro.
The National Assembly is the legislature for Venezuela that was first elected in 2000. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members,who were 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. The number of seats is constant,each state and the Capital district elected three representatives plus the result of dividing the state population by 1.1% of the total population of the country. 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. All deputies serve five-year terms. The National Assembly meets in the Federal Legislative Palace in Venezuela's capital,Caracas.
The Supreme Justice Tribunal is the highest court of law in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and is the head of the judicial branch. As the independence of the Venezuelan judiciary under the regime of Nicolás Maduro is questioned,there have recently been many disputes as to whether this court is legitimate.
Adán Chávez Frías is a Venezuelan politician who was Governor of Barinas state from 2008 to 2016. Previously he was Ambassador to Cuba and then Minister of Education from 2007 to 2008.
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. She is married to the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro,making her the First Lady. Since 2015,she has also been a deputy in the National Assembly of Venezuela,of which she was president from 2006 to 2011,for her home state of Cojedes. In 2017,the Constituent National Assembly was founded,in which she is a member of the Presidential Commission.
Elías JoséJaua Milano is a Venezuelan politician and former university professor who serves as the Minister of Education of Venezuela. He served as the vice president of Venezuela from January 2010 to October 2012 and had been Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2013 until September 2014.
Julián Isaías Rodríguez Díaz is a Venezuelan politician,diplomat and lawyer. He was appointed the vice president of Venezuela on 29 January 2000 by Hugo Chávez,and served in the post until 26 December 2000.
Francisco JoséAmeliach Orta is a Venezuelan retired military officer and politician who is vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
María Iris Varela Rangel is a Venezuelan leftist politician,activist,criminologist,member of the board of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and Minister of Popular Power for the Prison Service.
On 29 March 2017,the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela took over legislative powers of the National Assembly. The Tribunal,mainly supporters of President Nicolás Maduro,also restricted the immunity granted to the Assembly's members,who mostly belonged to the opposition.
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Venezuela on 30 July 2017 to elect the members of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly. Unlike the 1999 Constituent National Assembly,which was assembled following a referendum,the 2017 election was convened by the presidential decree of President Nicolás Maduro. Smartmatic,the company which provided the voting machines,stated that the results were tampered with by the CNE,and that the turnout was off by at least one million votes.
Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2020. Aside from the 167 deputies of the National Assembly who are eligible to be re-elected,the new National Electoral Council president announced that the assembly would increase by 110 seats,for a total of 277 deputies to be elected.
Pedro Miguel Carreño Escobar is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. Carreño has served multiple roles within the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela during the presidencies of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
Juan Gerardo Antonio GuaidóMárquez is a Venezuelan opposition politician. He belonged to the social-democratic party Popular Will,and was a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas.
The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and the legitimate president of Venezuela between 2019 and 2023,with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó.
Tania Valentina Díaz González is a Venezuelan journalist and politician. She was deputy of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) representing the Capital District and Minister of Communication and Information of Venezuela in 2010,as well as deputy and second vice-president of the National Assembly until 2016. Diaz served as the last first vice president of the 2017 National Constituent Assembly (ANC).
Jesús Rafael Suárez Chourio is a Venezuelan military officer who served as the General Commander of the Bolivarian Army of Venezuela from 20 June 2017 until 8 July 2019.
The 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election was to be held in the ordinary session of the National Assembly on 5 January,in which 160 deputies were to elect the legislature's board of directors for the year 2020–21:the president,the first and second vice presidents,the secretary and the deputy secretary. It was the last such election of the IV National Assembly.
Darío Ramón Vivas Velasco was a Venezuelan politician,member of the 2017 National Constituent Assembly and the Governor of the Capital District.
Operación Alacrán,also known as CLAP affair or PSUV-CLAP faction,is the name given to a corruption plot which was denounced in 2019 by the members of the National Assembly of Venezuela. It would have sought to avoid the re-election of Juan Guaidóon 5 January 2020 as President of the Assembly,by obtaining the support of opposing legislators in exchange for millions of dollars. Legislators would have been asked to vote against Guaidó,or to not attend the election and thereby break the necessary quorum.
