2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela
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Constituent National Assembly Asamblea Nacional Constituyente |
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President
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First Vice-President
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Second Vice-President
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| Seats | 545 |
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Political groups
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Great Patriotic Pole and pro-government independents (545) |
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| Palacio Federal Legislativo, Caracas | |
The Constituent National Assembly —Spanish: Asamblea Nacional Constituyente (ANC)— is a constituent assembly elected in 2017 to draft a new constitution for Venezuela. The assembly also has constitutional supreme power above all other institutions in the republic. Its members were elected in a special 2017 election that was criticized by various parties internationally, with over forty countries condemning its creation. The Democratic Unity Roundtable—the opposition to the incumbent ruling party—also boycotted the election claiming that the Constituent Assembly was "a trick to keep [the incumbent ruling party] in power." Since the opposition did not participate in the election, the incumbent Great Patriotic Pole won almost all seats in the assembly by default.
After the assembly was elected, the body convened for the first time on 4 August 2017, despite criticism from the aforementioned parties and from the regional trade bloc Mercosur. As part of it first acts, the assembly elected former Foreign Minister and Minister of Communication Delcy Rodríguez as its president and former Vice Presidents of the Republic Aristobulo Isturiz and Isaías Rodríguez as its vice-presidents.
Prior to assembling at the Federal Legislative Palace, members of the National Constituent Assembly carried large portraits of Hugo Chávez and Simón Bolívar, placing them in the palace to show support for the Bolivarian government. Assembly President Delcy Rodríguez also declared that the new assembly would commence work on 5 August 2017.
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