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A National Constituent Assembly is elected and seated over the 2015 National Assembly

On 30 July 2017 Venezuelans were called to elect a National Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro. The ANC then sat as a superordinate body over the 2015 National Assembly. In the causal graph this event weakens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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On 30 July 2017 Venezuelans were called to elect a National Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro. Opposition parties boycotted. The ANC then sat as a superordinate body over the 2015 National Assembly.

Context

TSJ March 2017 sat as parent. Neighbouring protest deaths are the same season. He did not sit as every CNE machine.

TSJ 29 March is the parent. 2018 presidential contest is a child under ANC weather.

The President of Venezuela heads the national executive, commands FANB as commander-in-chief, appoints the cabinet, and can request enabling laws. He does not write an OFAC designation, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber decision, or a Colombian migration statute. A CNE announcement is not an opposition acta and is not a Carter Center finding. Those three statuses stay on separate rows. An ICC investigation is not a conviction. An IMF figure is labelled as an estimate where BCV stopped publishing. Sanctions after 2017 and 2019 are an external causal factor; they do not erase the pre-2017 PDVSA-and-policy collapse.

Why it matters

The path is democratic resilience: a completed parallel assembly that displaced an opposition-led legislature.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Nicolás Maduro

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.85 · verified

    He convened the ANC. CNE ran the vote. PSUV filled seats. The 2015 Assembly remained a neighbour claimant.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Venezuela’s Maduro claims victory in constituent assembly voteReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Consejo Nacional Electoral — 14 April 2013 presidential result announcementCNE · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

CNE announced a turnout the opposition and later independent reporting disputed.

CNE carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: 30 July 2017 ANC election and seating, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later GDP coefficient from that Sunday, or that a new constitution was thereby completed that night.

CNE ran the vote. PSUV filled seats. The 2015 Assembly remained a neighbour claimant.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies A National Constituent Assembly is elected and seated over the 2015 National Assembly, not a later speech about A National Constituent Assembly is elected and seated over the 2015 National Assembly.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He convened the ANC. CNE ran the vote. PSUV filled seats. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNicolás Maduro
  2. contributed toFactA National Constituent Assembly is elected and seated over the 2015 National Assembly
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Democratic Resilience
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). A National Constituent Assembly is elected and seated over the 2015 National Assembly. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-anc-2017

https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-anc-2017

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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