Executive Branch
The president is elected by a plurality vote with direct and universal suffrage. The term of office is six years. A president may be re-elected perpetually as of 15 February 2009. The president appoints the Vice President.
The president decides the size and composition of the cabinet and makes appointments to it with the involvement of the National Assembly.
Cabinet officials include:
- Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for the foreign relations of Venezuela. (List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela)
- Minister of Environment and Natural Resources
- Agriculture & Lands
- Minister of Basic Industry & Mining
- Minister of Communications & Information
- Minister of Communes & Social Protection
- Minister of Culture
- Minister of Defense
- Minister of Education
- Minister of Energy & Petroleum & President of PDVSA
- Minister of Nutrition
- Minister of Planning & Finance
- Minister of Health
- Minister of Higher Education
- Minister of Housing & Habitat
- Minister of Indigenous Peoples
- Minister of Interior & Justice (List of Ministers of Interior and Justice of Venezuela)
- Minister of Labor and Social Security
- Minister of Basic Industry & Mining
- Minister of Science & Technology
- Minister of Sports
- Minister of Telecommunications
- Tourism
- Trade
- Ministry of Transport and Communications (Venezuela)
- Office of the Presidency (formerly the Venezuelan Secretariat of the Presidency)
- Venezuelan Ministry of Women's Affairs
- Central Bank President
- Prosecutor General
Former ministries include the Venezuelan Ministry of Infrastructure, which became the "Ministry of Public Works and Housing" and was split into the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Ministry of Housing & Habitat in June 2010. The Ministry of Popular Economy became the "Ministry of Communal Economy" in 2007, and was merged into the Ministry of Communes and Social Protection on 3 March 2009, along with the Ministry of Participation and Social Protection. In February 2010 the Ministry of Planning and Development was merged with the Ministry of Finance to form the Ministry of Planning and Finance.
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