Residence La Viñeta | Formation 1830 | |
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Term length No fixed termAt the President's pleasure Inaugural holder Diego Bautista Urbaneja Website Vicepresidencia de la República | ||
Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, commonly known simply as the Vice President of Venezuela, is the second highest political position in the government of Venezuela. The Vice President is the direct collaborator of the President of the Republic according to the Constitution. The office of Vice President appeared in the Constitution of 1830 until the Constitution of 1858, and once again in the Constitution of 1999.
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Since 4 January 2017, Tareck El Aissami of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela has been Vice President to Nicolás Maduro.
Functions and duties
According to the Constitution of 1999, the duties of the Executive Vice President are
- To collaborate with the President of the Republic to direct the actions of the Government.
- To coordinate the Public National Administration in accordance with the instructions of President of the Republic.
- To propose the appointment and the removal of the Ministers to the President of the Republic.
- To preside over the Cabinet if the President is absent.
- To coordinate the relations of the National Executive with the National Assembly.
- To preside at the Federal Council of Government.
- To name and to remove, in accordance with the law, the officials or national officials whose designation is not attributed to another authority.
- To substitute for the President of the Republic on temporary and absolute absences.
- To exercise the duties delegated to him by the President of the Republic.
Appointment and removal
The Executive Vice President is appointed and removed by the President. Vice President can also be removed with more than two-thirds of the votes in National Assembly. If the National Assembly removes three Vice Presidents from office during a six-year presidential term, the President is authorized to dissolve the Parliament.
Presidential succession
Executive Vice President is the first in line to the succession of the President of Venezuela, when President is unable to fulfill the duties of office in the exceptional cases established in the Article 233 and 234 of the National Constitution.
Former Vice Presidents Andrés Navarte, Carlos Soublette, Diosdado Cabello (in April 2002) and Nicolás Maduro (in 2012–2013) were all once acting Presidents of Venezuela. Soublette and Maduro were also later elected as President.