Vice President of Venezuela

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Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the second highest political postion in the government of Venezuela. Vice President is the most direct collaborator of the President of the Republic according to the Constitution. Position of Vice President appeared in the Constitution of 1830 until the Constitution of 1858, and once again in the Constitution of 1999. The current Vice President of the Republic is Ramón Carrizales, who took up office in 2008.

Vice President is the fist in line to the succession of the President of Venezuela, when President is unable to fulfill the dutied in the exceptional cases established in the Article 233 and 234 of the National Constitution.

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.

Former Vice Presidents Andrés Navarte and Carlos Soublette were both once acting Presidents of Venezuela. Soublette was also later elected as President.

Functions of the Executive Vice President

According to the Constitution of 1999, the duties of the Executive Vice President are

1. To collaborate with the President of the Republic to direct the actions of the Government.

2. To coordinate the Public National Administration in accordance with the instructions of President of the Republic.

3. To propose the appointment and the removal of the Ministers to the President of the Republic.

4. To preside the Cabinet if the President or the President is absent.

5. To coordinate the relations of the National Executive with the National Assembly.

6. To preside at the Federal Council of Government.

7. To name and to remove, in accordance with the law, the officials or national officials whose designation is not attributed to another authority.

8. To substitute the President of the Republic on temporary and absolute absences.

9. To exercise the duties delegated to him by the President of the Republic.

Vice Presidents of Venezuela

References

• (Spanish) Vicepresidency of the Republic