28 April 2015 –1 October 2016
Gladys del Valle Requena (9 November 1952) is a Venezuelan politician. She served in the National Assembly until 2015,becoming the Minister for Women and Gender Equality under Nicolás Maduro. After serving in his cabinet,she became a member of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly. [1] She has been sanctioned by the EU for her role in undermining the rule of law in the Venezuelan presidential crisis. [2]
Requena moved to Vargas with her family looking for a better quality of life. She became a professor of Spanish and literature after graduating from the Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas in 1977. She graduated as a lawyer from the Central University of Venezuela in 1982,specializing in labor law.
She was deputy to the National Assembly for the Vargas State and the president of the parliamentary Permanent Commission of Culture and Recreation. She is also one of the founders of the Regional Institute for Women in Vargas (IREMUJER) and the Women's Network in Vargas in 1997,as well as member of the organizing commission of the Unitary Platform of Revolutionary Women in 2007 and the national commission for the National Women's Front in 2009.
Requena was a delegate in several conferences for the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF),such as the São Paulo Forum summit in Caracas,2012,the WIDF Direction Committee in Brussels,2009 and the Fifth WIDF Regional Conference in Ecuador,2009. From 2011 to 2014 she was the National Assembly delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in six summits in Panama City,Bern,Kampala,Quebec City and Geneva. She was member of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly.
On June 29,2020,she was sanctioned by the EU,effectively freezing her assets in and barring her from traveling to the EU jurisdictions,citing her "persistent actions undermining democracy,the rule of law and respect for human rights". The EU specifically cited her role in stripping Juan Guaidó of his parliamentary immunity. [2]
The politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina are defined by a parliamentary,representative democratic framework,where the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina,named by the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Legislative power is vested in both the Council of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Members of the Parliamentary Assembly are chosen according to a proportional representation system. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the current and twenty-sixth constitution of Venezuela. It was drafted in mid-1999 by a constituent assembly that had been created by popular referendum. Adopted in December 1999,it replaced the 1961 Constitution,the longest-serving in Venezuelan history. It was primarily promoted by then President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez and thereafter received strong backing from diverse sectors,including figures involved in promulgating the 1961 constitution such as Luis Miquilena and Carlos Andrés Pérez. Chávez and his followers (chavistas) refer to the 1999 document as the "Constitución Bolivariana" because they assert that it is ideologically descended from the thinking and political philosophy of Simón Bolívar and Bolivarianism.
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.
Freddy Alirio Bernal Rosales is a Venezuelan politician. He served as mayor of the Libertador Municipality in Caracas and is a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
The Constituent National Assembly or ANC was a constitutional convention held in Venezuela in 1999 to draft a new Constitution of Venezuela,but the assembly also gave itself the role of a supreme power above all the existing institutions in the republic. The Assembly was endorsed by a referendum in April 1999 which enabled Constituent Assembly elections in July 1999. Three seats were reserved for indigenous delegates in the 131-member constitutional assembly,and two additional indigenous delegates won unreserved seats in the assembly elections.
Tibisay Lucena Ramírez was a Venezuelan politician,president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) between 2006 and 2020,one of the five branches of government of Venezuela. Since 2017,Lucena was sanctioned by several countries for her role in undermining democracy and human rights in the country.
Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez is a Venezuelan lawyer,diplomat,and politician who has served as the vice president of Venezuela since 2018. Rodríguez has held several positions during the presidencies of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. She was Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information of Venezuela from 2013 to 2014,Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017 and President of the Constituent Assembly of Venezuela from 4 August 2017 to 14 June 2018 until her retirement from that office to assume the vice presidency of the country. Since 2024 she holds the position of Minister of Petroleum. She is a member of the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. The European Union,the United States and Canada have placed sanctions on her for what they said were human rights violations and her role in the political crisis in the country.
Primary legislation and secondary legislation are two forms of law,created respectively by the legislative and executive branches of governments in representative democracies. Primary legislation generally consists of statutes,also known as 'acts',that set out broad principles and rules,but may delegate specific authority to an executive branch to make more specific laws under the aegis of the principal act. The executive branch can then issue secondary legislation,creating legally enforceable regulations and the procedures for implementing them.
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.
Blanca Rosa Eekhout Gómez is a Venezuelan politician who has been Minister for Women and Gender Equality since 2016. She was Minister of Communication and Information between 2009 and 2010,and held the position as Second Vice President of the National Assembly during the 2011-2015 legislative period. She has also been president of VTV and ViVe and was cofounder of Catia TVe in 2001.
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.
Tarek William Saab Halabi is a Venezuelan politician,lawyer,and poet. He was a leader of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) party founded by Hugo Chávez,President of Venezuela,who publicly called him "The poet of the revolution". He was the Governor of Anzoátegui from 2004 to 2012,and a member of the Committee for Justice and Truth since 2013. In December 2014,he was elected "People's Defender",or Ombudsman,by the National Assembly for 2014–2021 term. On 5 August 2017,the National Constituent Assembly appointed him as Attorney General in substitution of Luisa Ortega Diaz.
Socorro Elizabeth Hernández de Hernández is a Venezuelan rector of the country's National Electoral Council (CNE). Before the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly elections,she was involved in changes to polling stations.
Sandra Oblitas Ruzza is a Venezuelan public official who has been vice president and rector of the country's National Electoral Council (CNE). She was involved in disruptions during the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly elections in Venezuela.
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).
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.
Elvis Eduardo Hidrobo Amoroso is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer who currently serves as the President of the National Electoral Council since 24 August 2023. He previously served as Comptroller General of the Republic and held the presidency of the Republican Moral Council,also known as the Moral Power. In August 2017,he was elected as first and second vice president of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly and served until October 2017. He also served as a deputy to the National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
Erika del Valle Farías Peña is a Venezuelan politician. She served as Minister for the Office of the Presidency three times as Minister for Urban Agriculture,Minister for the Communes and deputy to the 2017 National Constituent Assembly. She is a militant and member of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV),and is currently the mayor of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality of Caracas.
Indira Maira Alfonzo Izaguirre is a Venezuelan judge who until May 2020 served as the first vice president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) and as president of the Electoral Chamber. In June 2020,she sworn in as chief rector and president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) by the TSJ,to organize 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election. Her position in the CNE is contested by the National Assembly,organism in charge of selecting the CNE members,but the parliament was deemed in “unconstitutional omission”by the TSJ.