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Omar Barboza

Venezuelan politician

Omar Barboza


9th President of the National Assembly of Venezuela
In office 5 January 2018 – 5 January 2019
Preceded by	Julio Borges
Succeeded by	Juan Guaidó

Personal details
Born	Omar Enrique Barboza Gutiérrez (1944-07-27) July 27, 1944 (age 79) Maracaibo, Venezuela
Political party	Un Nuevo Tiempo
Other political affiliations	Democratic Unity Roundtable
Occupation	Advocate, 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

^ (in Spanish) ¿Quién es Omar Barboza, el nuevo presidente de la Asamblea Nacional?
^ (in Spanish) Comando Angostura: El llamado es a votar el 15 de febrero^{[permanent dead link]} (Spanish, visited February 21, 2009)
^ The Associated Press - Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela (visited February 21, 2009)