National Assembly
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Key facts
- Type
- Unicameral
- Founded
- 20 December 1999 ; 26 years ago ( 1999-12-20 )
- Preceded by
- Congress of Venezuela
- New session started
- 5 January 2026
- President
- Jorge Rodríguez , PSUV , since 5 January 2021
- First vice president
- Pedro José Infante, PSUV , since 5 January 2023
- Second vice president
- Grecia Colmenares, PSUV , since 5 January 2026
- Political groups
- Majority (256) GPPSB (253) Indigenous seats (3) Minority (29) UNT – UNICA (11) AD (8) FV (4) PV (2) CMC (1) El Cambio (1) Copei (1) LÁPIZ (1)
- Committees
- 15 standing committees
- Length of term
- 5 years
- Voting system
- Parallel voting :, Party-list proportional representation (149 seats), First-past-the-post (136 seats)
- First election
- 30 July 2000
- Last election
- 25 May 2025 ( partial recognition )
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Encyclopedic overview
The National Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Nacional) is the federal legislature of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which was first elected in 2000 under the 1999 constitution. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members, who are 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.
Each of the 23 states and the Capital District elects no less than 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 total number of seats was 165, with 167 from 2015 to 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “National Assembly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.