THE REVOCATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL MANDATE IN VENEZUELA: A CONTROVERSIAL INSTRUMENT IN ITS PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM

Abstract

The present work approaches from a theoretical-practical perspective the consideration of the revocation of the presidential mandate in Venezuela as an institution that has been distorted in its original essence as an instrument of citizen power. It has become a political medium in which the legislative power, being devoid of other institutional means, tries to limit the executive power and depose it in its mandate, having seen the National Assembly increasingly devoid of its capabilities and powers before a power executive plenipotentiary that controls the rest of the powers of the nation. However, in light of the events that will be described in the article, it is true that citizen power, a bulwark of the new Latin American constitutionalism, remains a simple principle that decorates the Venezuelan constitution