National Assembly appoints directors of Parliamentary Friendship Groups

Published at: 13/01/2026 05:38 PM

The National Assembly (AN) appointed this Tuesday the board and members of the Parliamentary Friendship Groups with some nations of the world to advance legislative, social, scientific and cultural rapprochement with these countries at this stage of the new period 2026-2031.

After the start of the Ordinary Session, the president of the AN, Jorge Rodríguez, announced the list of the principal nominees to hold the presidencies and vice-presidencies.

He commented that between 2021 and 2025, it was precisely the massive formation of friendship groups with the countries of the world “that allowed us to develop a process of parliamentary diplomacy, which in many moments and in many ways overcame the siege to which we had been subjected”.

He denounced those international institutions that he did not hesitate to describe as “baseless, completely empty institutions”, such as the supposed global interparliamentary union.

“We managed to overcome this garbage with the work of parliamentary diplomacy, direct relations, with the world's parliaments, with the rapprochement and solidarity expressed by the world's parliaments in the face of the aggression suffered by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” Rodríguez said.

He urged the deputies of the various opinion groups in the AN to form and work actively in the parliamentary friendship groups that were announced at that time.

Rodríguez indicated only the names of presidents (presidents) and vice-presidents (vice-presidents) and invited those interested to coordinate with the vice-president of the parliament, Pedro Infante, to voluntarily join the friendship group of their choice, through the Secretariat of the legislative body, in addition to wishing the best success in the work to be carried out. “May they do very well!”

Below are the directives of the groups made up of countries:

Belarus: President, María Gabriela Vega/Vice President, Jacqueline Faria.

Russia: President, Jesús Fária/Vice President, Pedro Infante.

Nicaragua: President, Pedro Carreño/Vice President, Juan Carlos Alemán.

China: President: Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra/Vice President, Rodolfo Sanz.

Spain: President, Desirée Santos Amaral/Vice President, Stalin González.

Colombia: President, Grecia Colmenares/Vice President, Luis Augusto Romero.

Brazil: President Roy Daza/Vice President /Blanca Eekhout.

Cuba: President, Wilmar Castro Soteldo; Vice President, Juan Carlos Sierra.

Mexico: President, María Gabriela Vega/Vice President, Jacqueline Faria.

Serbia : President, Jacqueline Faria/Vice President, Yosneisy Paredes.

Iran: President, Pedro Infante/Vice President, Gloria Castillo.

Qatar: President, Juan Carlos Alemán/Vice President, Fernando Bastidas.

Palestine: President, Bussy Galeano/Vice President, Carlos Gamarra.

South Africa : President, Carlos Mogollón/Vice President, José Villarroel.

Algeria: President, Manuel Hernández/Vice President, Imarú Bolívar Morales.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea : President, José Vielma Mora/Vice President, Juan Carlos Sierra.

Portugal: President, Orlando Camacho/Vice President, Henry Falcón.

Uruguay: President, América Pérez/Vice President, José Gregorio Correa.

Chile : President Melvin Maldonado/Vice President, Jorge Arreaza /Vice President, Nancy Pérez.

Türkiye : President, Miguel Pérez Abad/Vice President, América Pérez.

Mazo News Team