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Omar Barboza

Omar Barboza

Venezuelan politician

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Barboza and the second or maternal family name is Gutiérrez.

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.

Quick Facts 9th President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Preceded by ...

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."

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  1. [1]
    (in Spanish) ¿Quién es Omar Barboza, el nuevo presidente de la Asamblea Nacional?
  2. [2]
    (in Spanish) Comando Angostura: El llamado es a votar el 15 de febrero[permanent dead link] (Spanish, visited February 21, 2009)
  3. [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
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