Constituent Assembly elections were held in Venezuela on 25 July 1999,[1] following a referendum in April on convening one.
[2] The electoral bases proposed by President Hugo Chávez and revised by the CNE were approved.
[2] Although the great majority of the candidates were civil society members, outside the political parties, the lack of unity atomized their efforts.
[5] As such, 33% of the forces that voted for candidates unrelated to the Chavismo only managed to have seven constituents, one of them being Antonia Muñoz, a dissident Chavista who soon rejoined the ruling party.
[5] Political parties and civil associations were marginalized from the constituent process, and the role of opposition then fell on the state institutions, where the Congress and the Supreme Court stand out.