page_title: 2017 Constituent National Assembly
section_title: Members
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 Constituent National Assembly / Members
caption_attribution_description: English: Nicolás Maduro Guerra, a member of the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly and son of President Nicolás Maduro, during the 10 August 2017 session. He is seated beside Carmen Meléndez.
context_page_description: The Constituent National Assembly is a constituent assembly elected in 2017 to draft a new constitution for Venezuela. Its members were elected in a special 2017 election that was condemned by over forty mostly Latin American and Western states. The Democratic Unity Roundtable—the opposition to the incumbent ruling party—also boycotted the election claiming that the Constituent Assembly was "a trick to keep [the incumbent ruling party] in power." Since the opposition did not participate in the election, the incumbent Great Patriotic Pole, dominated by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, won almost all seats in the assembly by default.
  After the assembly was elected, the body convened for the first time on 4 August 2017, despite criticism from the aforementioned parties and from the regional trade bloc Mercosur. As part of it first acts, the assembly elected former Foreign Minister and Minister of Communication Delcy Rodríguez as its president, though she was appointed Vice President of Venezuela on 14 June 2018, leaving the position vacant. Former Vice Presidents of the Republic Aristobulo Isturiz and Isaías Rodríguez as its vice-presidents.
caption: Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of President Nicolás Maduro, beside Carmen Meléndez during a session
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