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Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the second highest political position 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Vice Presidents of Venezuela

Name	Inaugurated	Left Office	Notes
Manuel Moreno de Mendoza and Mauricio Ayala and Andrés Narvarte	1811	1812	First Triumvirate
Cristóbal Mendoza and Francisco Mays and Juan Germán Roscio	1812	1812	Second Triumvirate
Francisco Antonio Zea	1819	1819	Interim
Diego Bautista Urbaneja	1830	1833	Interim
Andrés Narvarte	1833	1837	Elected indirectly
Carlos Soublette	1837	1841	Elected indirectly
Santos Michelena	1841	1844	Elected indirectly
Diego Bautista Urbaneja	1845	1849	Elected indirectly
Antonio Leocadio Guzmán	1849	1851	Elected indirectly
Joaquín Herrera	1851	1855
Manuel Felipe de Tovar	1858	1860	Interim
Pedro Gual Escandon	1860	1861	Elected indirectly
Antonio Leocadio Guzmán	1863	1864	Interim
Jesús Ramón Ayala and Juan Vicente Gómez	1901	1904
Juan Vicente Gómez and José Antonio Velutini	1905	1910
Juan Crisóstomo Gómez and José Vicente Gómez	1922	1923
No provision for Vice President	1923	1999
Isaías Rodríguez	2000	2000	Appointed by President
Adina Bastidas	2000	2002	Appointed by President
Diosdado Cabello	2002	2002	Appointed by President
José Vicente Rangel	2002	2007	Appointed by President
Jorge Rodríguez Gómez	2007	2008	Appointed by President
Ramón Carrizales	2008	Incumbent	Appointed by President

[edit] References

• (Spanish) Vicepresidency of the Republic
• List of current Vice Presidents