Omar Barboza
9th President of the National Assembly of Venezuela
In office
5 January 2018 – 5 January 2019
Preceded byJulio Borges
Succeeded byJuan Guaidó
Personal details
Born
Omar Enrique Barboza Gutiérrez

(1944-07-27) July 27, 1944 (age 79)
Maracaibo, Venezuela
Political partyUn Nuevo Tiempo
Other political
affiliations		Democratic Unity Roundtable
OccupationAdvocate, Politician

Omar Enrique Barboza Gutiérrez (born 27 July 1944)[1] is the president[2] of the Venezuelan political party Un Nuevo Tiempo ("A New Era"), in opposition to Nicolás Maduro.

In February 2009 a constitutional amendment to remove term limits on public offices in Venezuela was approved by 54% of voters in the 2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum. Barboza said "We're democrats. We accept the results," to The Associated Press,[3] but claimed that the results were skewed by Hugo Chávez's broad use of state resources to win the vote, through state-run news media, political pressure on 2 million public employees and frequent presidential speeches (cadenas) which all television stations in Venezuela are required to air, and added that "Effectively this will become a dictatorship."

Sources

  1. ^ (in Spanish) ¿Quién es Omar Barboza, el nuevo presidente de la Asamblea Nacional?
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Comando Angostura: El llamado es a votar el 15 de febrero[permanent dead link] (Spanish, visited February 21, 2009)
  3. ^ The Associated Press - Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela (visited February 21, 2009) Archived February 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
Political offices Preceded byJulio Borges President of the National Assembly of Venezuela 2018–2019 Succeeded byJuan Guaidó
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