Term Start: | 16 May 2022 |
Predecessor: | José Luis Cartaya (MUD) |
Term Start1: | 5 January 2018 |
Term End1: | 5 January 2019 |
Term Start2: | 5 January 2011 |
Term End2: | 5 January 2021 |
Term Start3: | 23 January 1994 |
Term End3: | 22 December 1999 |
Term Start4: | 8 June 1985 |
Term End4: | 2 February 1989 |
Predecessor4: | Ángel Zambrano |
Successor4: | Ismael Ordaz González |
Birth Name: | Omar Enrique Barboza Gutiérrez |
Birth Date: | 27 July 1944 |
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."