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

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

. Vice President is the most direct collaborator of the President of the Republic according to the Constitution

Constitution of Venezuela

||The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the current and twenty-sixth constitution of Venezuela. It was drafted in mid-1999 by a constitutional assembly that had been created by popular referendum. Adopted in December 1999, it replaced the 1961 Constitution - the longest...

. 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 Elías Jaua

Elías Jaua

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, who took up office in 2010.

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

National Assembly of Venezuela

The National Assembly is the legislative branch of the Venezuelan government. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members, who are elected by "universal, direct, personal, and secret" vote partly by direct election in state-based voting districts, and partly on a state-based...

. 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

Carlos Soublette

Carlos Soublette was President of Venezuela 1837-1839 and 1843–1847, and a hero of the Venezuelan War of Independence....

 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.

List of Vice Presidents of Venezuela

Name	Inaugurated	Left Office	Notes
Manuel Moreno de Mendoza and Mauricio Ayala and Andrés Narvarte Andrés Narvarte Andrés Narvarte was President of Venezuela as interim caretaker .Lawyer and politician, son of Joaquín Narvarte y Descarga and María Josefa Pimentel y de la Mota, was born in La Guaira, 1781. Vice-president of the Republic and President of Venezuela...	1811	1812	First Triumvirate
Cristóbal Mendoza Cristóbal Mendoza Cristóbal Hurtado de Mendoza was a Venezuelan politician. Cristobal became the first President of Venezuela in 1811.-Biography:...  and Francisco Mays and Juan Germán Roscio Juan Germán Roscio Juan Germán Roscio , was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician of Italian background, served as the secretary of foreign affairs for the Junta of Caracas, and the main editor of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence,. Roscio was also the chief architect of the Venezuelan Constitution of 1811.-...	1812	1812	Second Triumvirate
Francisco Antonio Zea Francisco Antonio Zea Francisco Antonio Zea was a Neogranadine journalist, botanist, diplomat and statesman that served as the 1st Vice President of Colombia under then-President Simón Bolívar...	1819	1819	Interim
Diego Bautista Urbaneja	1830	1833	Interim
Andrés Narvarte Andrés Narvarte Andrés Narvarte was President of Venezuela as interim caretaker .Lawyer and politician, son of Joaquín Narvarte y Descarga and María Josefa Pimentel y de la Mota, was born in La Guaira, 1781. Vice-president of the Republic and President of Venezuela...	1833	1837	Elected indirectly
Carlos Soublette Carlos Soublette Carlos Soublette was President of Venezuela 1837-1839 and 1843–1847, and a hero of the Venezuelan War of Independence....	1837	1841	Elected indirectly
Santos Michelena Santos Michelena Santos Michelena was a Venezuelan politician. Born in Maracay, Aragua.-See also:*Venezuela*Foreign relations of Venezuela*Vice President of Venezuela...	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 Pedro Gual Escandon Pedro José Ramón Gual Escandón , was a Venezuelan lawyer, politician, journalist and diplomat...	1860	1861	Elected indirectly
Antonio Leocadio Guzmán	1863	1864	Interim
Jesús Ramón Ayala and Juan Vicente Gómez Juan Vicente Gómez Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón was a military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, and ruled as an unelected military strongman for the rest of the era.-Early years:Gómez was a barely literate cattle herder and...	1901	1904
Juan Vicente Gómez Juan Vicente Gómez Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón was a military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, and ruled as an unelected military strongman for the rest of the era.-Early years:Gómez was a barely literate cattle herder and...  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 Adina Bastidas Adina Mercedes Bastidas Castillo is a Venezuelan economist active in politics. She was appointed Vice President of Venezuela on December 24, 2000 by Hugo Chávez, and served in the post until January 13, 2002, the first woman to hold the job in the country's history...	2000	2002	Appointed by President
Diosdado Cabello Diosdado Cabello Diosdado Cabello Rondón is a Venezuelan politician. A former member of the armed forces, he was involved in Hugo Chávez's February 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. He became a leading member of Chavez's Movimiento V República , and remains a leading member of the United Socialist Party of...	2002	2002	Appointed by President
José Vicente Rangel José Vicente Rangel José Vicente Rangel Vale is a Venezuelan leftist politician. He ran for President three times in the 1970s and 1980s and later supported Hugo Chávez, successively becoming Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Vice President in Chávez's government.-Political activism:His political activism began...	2002	2007	Appointed by President
Jorge Rodríguez Gómez	2007	2008	Appointed by President
Ramón Carrizales Ramón Carrizales Ramón Alonso Carrizales Rengifo is a Venezuelan politician who was Vice President of Venezuela from January 2008 to January 2010...	2008	2010	Appointed by President
Elías Jaua Elías Jaua -External links: "", World Investment News, 11 September 2006...	2010	Incumbent	Appointed by President