Omar Barboza

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Barboza and the second or maternal family name is Gutiérrez.
Omar Barboza
Coordinator of the Unitary Platform
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 May 2022
Preceded byJosé Luis Cartaya (MUD)
9th President of the National Assembly of Venezuela
In office
5 January 2018 – 5 January 2019
Preceded byJulio Borges
Succeeded byJuan Guaidó
Deputy of the National Assembly
for Zulia State
In office
5 January 2011 – 5 January 2021
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Zulia State
In office
23 January 1994 – 22 December 1999
Governor of Zulia
In office
8 June 1985 – 2 February 1989
PresidentJaime Lusinchi
Preceded byÁngel Zambrano
Succeeded byIsmael Ordaz González
Personal details
Born
Omar Enrique Barboza Gutiérrez

(1944-07-27) 27 July 1944 (age 80)
Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
Political partyDemocratic Action (Until 1999)
Un Nuevo Tiempo (1999–present)
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)
Political offices
Preceded by President of the National Assembly of Venezuela
2018–2019 		Succeeded by
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