Democratic Action
A centre-left party that holds 26 seats at the parliament. It is member of the Socialist International. 
It used to be one of the main parties that held Venezuelan government in a bipartidist system during the second half of the XX Century, until the arrival of Hugo Chávez. The other party, a centre-right party named COPEI, still exists and is part of the MUD, but it did't win any representative at the parliament and currently only has a dozen of mayors in medium or small towns. 

Twitter account: @ADemocratica

Representative of the Mérida state.
Born: 15/10/1957    ID: 5.446.776

Former Mérida city councillor and member of the Regional Assembly of Mérida for three terms. 

Twitter account: @alexispaparoni

Representative of the Lara state.
Born: 30/11/1964    ID: 8.846.976

This is his third term at the National Assembly. He got elected as deputee at the National Assembly in 2000 being member of the party Acción Democrática. In 2005, as many other politicians of the opposition, he boycotted the elections. In 2007 he joined the party Un Nuevo Tiempo and got elected again as deputee of the National assembly on 2010. In 2013 he leaved Un Tiempo Nuevo and joined his current party, Primero Justicia. 

Twitter account: @DipMarquina

Mayor of the Iribarren municipality since 2013. On July 28, 2017, he was arrested by hooded members of SEBIN (Venezuelan Intelligence Service) accused of allowing the demonstrations against Maduro's governement in his municipality, that by that time had already been going on for more than 100 days. He has been sentenced to 15 months of prison by the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice.

Carmen Ramos, his wife, runs his Twitter account and acts as his spokesperson.

Videos of his detention:
- SEBIN arrives to Iribarren city council
- Workers of the city council and citizens block the access to SEBIN while demand an arrest warrant
- Alfredo Ramos addressing his supporters while SEBIN tries to arrest him
- Overview

Twitter account: @AlfredoARamos

Fearless People's Alliance
A centre-left party of social democrat ideology that holds one seat at the parliament. It was founded in 2000 by former members of Acción Democrática. 

Twitter account: @ABPVenezuela

Alliance for Change
A centre-left party that holds one seat at the parliament. The party was founded in 2013 by former members of the MUD. At the beggining the party was critical with both Maduro's government and the MUD, but finally in 2015 it joined the GPP.

Representative of the Bolívar state.
Born: 08/12/1959    ID: 5.339.752

President of the Commission of Energy, mines and oil. Member of a subcommission in charge of investigating irregularities related with the state-owned company PDVSA, the national petroleum company. The authorities took away his passport. He was wounded on July 5, 2017 during an attack of armed 'Colectivos' to the National Assembly.

Twitter account: @AmericoDeGrazia

Andrea González de León, who holds both Venezuelan and Spanish nationalities (she is originally from Tenerife, Canary Islands), used to study pastry course. She was arrested by SEBIN (Venezuelan Intelligence Services) on August 17, 2015 together with her husband Dany Gabriel Abreu Abreu.

They are accused of being part of a gang that planned to murder Daniela Cabello, the daughter of Diosdado Cabello, vice-president of PSUV and former president of the National Assembly.  The only evidence provided against them is a statement of  José Pérez Venta, the alleged murdered of Liana Hergueta.

José Pérez Venta accused Andrea González of offering him 500.000 $ to murder Daniela Cabello. Liana Hergueta, the woman murdered by José Pérez Venta, was an acquaintance of Andrea and Dany. They met at the 2014 demonstrations against the government. Dany and Andrea allegedly spent two nights at Liana's house durint the demonstrations, because they lived far from where they were taking place.

José Pérez Ventas claims to hava been part of the opposition parties Voluntad Popular and Operación Libertad, but his comments on Social Networks as Twitter (@perezventa) show that he was actually a government supporter prior to the 2014 demonstrations. Now, he claims to has been a political prisoner and to be an opposition supporter.

Alejandra González, the sister of Andrea, is the current spokesperon for Andrea. Alejandra lives in Tenerife, Spain, from where Andrea is originally from. Alejandra also runs a blog where she claims for the freedom of her sister and provides her version about her sister's case.

Born: 01/05/1955

Former mayor of the Metropolitan District of Caracas, Venezuela's capital city, He got elected on 2008 and reelected in 2013. On February 19, 2015, the SEBIN (Venezuelan Intelligence Service) arrested him at his office. Ledezma was accused of being involved in a coup d'état with the support of the United States. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned Ledezma's arrest.

On February 2016, after one year at a military prison, he was sent back home under house arrest for health reasons. During the wee hours of the morning of August 1, 2017 Ledezma's house is raid by SEBIN and they take him to prison again. On August 4, 2017 he was sent back home again.

On November 17, 2017 he scaped from his house arrest to Colombia, from where he took a plane to Madrid, Spain. Maduro, regarding Ledezma's escape said: "He went to Madrid to enjoy the life and drink wine, don't give us back the vampire! we don't want him!". Government supporters usually name Ledezma as "vampire".

Ledezma stated his political career in Acción Democrática in 1973, where he remained until 2000, when he founded his own party, Alianza Bravo Pueblo. Ledezma has held many political posts:

- 1984 - 1992 Deputy member of the National Assembly
- 1992 - 1993 Gobernor of the Capital Disctric (An entity that disappeared on 1999)
- 1994 - 1996 Member of the Venezuelan Senate, the Venezuelan Upper Chamber until 1999, when it was abolished by Hugo Chávez.
- 1994 - 1995 Vicepresident of the Senate
- 1996 - 2000 Mayor of the Libertador Municipality of Caracas, the biggest of the five Municipalities that conform the Metropolitan District of Caracas
- 2008 - 2015 Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Caracas

In 2008, after being elected as the Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Caracas, the Venezuelan National Assembly (then with a majority of pro-governmental representatives) passed a Capital District Law on April 30, 2009 that transferred most functions, funding, and personnel of the Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas to a new Venezuelan Capital District headed by a chavist person named by Hugo Chávez.

Ledezma began a hunger strike at the Organization of American States' offices in Caracas that drew international attention and forced Chavez government to step back.

Twitter account: @alcaldeledezma

Progressive Advance
A centre-left party that holds 3 seats at the parliament.
It was created by dissenting members from the chavist GPP parties PSUV, Podemos, Patria Para Todos and Gente Emergente in 2012.

Representative of the Yaracuy state.
Born: 08/09/1965    ID: 7.586.928

Son of italian immigrants from Sicily.  He was also a member of the parliament during the last term (2010 - 2015), but he started late his term since he was under house arrest. On February 4 2009 he got arrested accused of corruption and sent to remand.  The MUD enrolled him on their lists on 2010 elections in order to free him, since deputees have parliamentary immunity. Nevertheless the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice ordered him to remain under house arrest. He was freed on January 2011 after a jury found him innocent for second time.

Twitter account: @BiagioPilieri

Representative of the Lara state.
Born: 03/06/1957    ID: 5.251.224

Member of the Commission of Integral Development of the National Assembly. 

Twitter account: @SuarezBolivia

Representative of the Carabobo state.
Born: 24/02/1962    ID: 5.085.359

Vice-president of Proyecto Venezuela party. Police took his passport from him at the Maiquetía airport without any legal claim, forbiding him to leave the country. 

Twitter account: @CEBerrizbeitia

Representative of the Delta Amacuro state.
Born: 02/11/1980    ID: 14.114.979

Member of the Commission of environment, natural resources and climate change of the National Assembly.

Twitter account: @CarlosGomezPSUV

Convergence
A conservative party created in 1993 by former Venezuelan president Rafael Caldera (1969-1974 and 1994-1999). 
The party defends the private property and family values. Many of it members come from the COPEI.
It holds one seat at the parliament

Clear Accounts
A centre party that hold one seat at the parliament. It was founded in 2004. 

Born: 01/02/1984

Former mayor of San Cristóbal de Táchira. He studied at the George Washington University and at Táchira University. He is member of Voluntad Popular party.

Ceballos has been in prison since March 18, 2014. As the city of San Cristóbal was one of the epicentres of the 2014 demonstrations, the government acussed him of encourage them, and therefore, he is also acussed of being the responsible of the people killed by police during the demonstrations. He has been between August 12, 2015 and August 27, 2016 under house arrest, but he was sent back to prison acussed of preparing himself to escape.

His wife, Patricia Gutiérrez de Ceballos (@PatrideCeballos), is his spokesperson and also the current mayot of San Cristóbal de Táchira.

Twitter account: @Daniel_Ceballos

Representative of the Miranda state.
Born: 15/11/1971    ID: 10.500.320

Vice-president of Un Tiempo Nuevo party. President of the Commission of Internal Policy of the National Assembly. Vice-president of the Human Rights Commission of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. She has been part of the Primero Justicia party from 2004 to 2007, when she joins Un Tiempo Nuevo. On April 10, 2017 she received the impact of a tear gas can on her chest during a demonstration, requiring minor medical assistance. 

Twitter account: @delsasolorzano

Representative of the Zulia state.
Born: 08/10/1989    ID:  19.459.263

She is the in charge of the youth secretariat at her party, Un Tiempo Nuevo, and is also the president of the Commission of Culture of the National Assembly.

Twitter account: @ElimarDiazUNT

Representative of the Guárico state.
Born: 08/12/1955    ID: 4.832.760

Former member of PSUV. He defines himself as a chavist, but is critical with Maduro's government and also with the MUD.

Twitter account: @EustoquioC

Former members of the PSUV.

Representative of the Zulia state.
Born: 26/03/1968    ID: 7.903.481

Member of the Commission of Culture of the National Assembly.

Twitte account: @freddyspaz

Emerging People
A centre-left party that holds one seat at the parliament. It was founded in 1991. In the past, they supported Hugo Chávez, They joined the MUD in 2010 after oppose to some government actions, like the amendment of the Constitution made by Hugo Chávez in 2008. 

Representative of the Lara state.
Born: 06/09/1944    ID: 2.381.992

Former member of PSUV. He declares himself as a defender of the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution, the one created by Chávez, and opposes to the Constituent National Assembly.

He is the husband of Luisa Ortega, the former Attorney General dismissed by the  Constituent National Assembly and one of the most well-known critical voices against Maduro inside the chavism.

On August 14 the member of the Constituent National Assembly and vice-president of PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, demanded Germán Ferrer, accusing him of being the head of a extortion and corrumption network and having an account in a bank from Bahamas with 6$ million.

The new Attorney General that is replacing Luisa Ortega, Tarek William Saab, has accepted the demand and has issued an arrest warrant against Germán Ferrer and has removed his parliamentary immunity.

Germán Ferrer has rejected the accusations and claims that he is being prosecuted for oppose the "totalitarian government" and that he and his wife have received death-threats.

He joined the Communist Party of Venezuela being young and later was one of the founders of the PSUV. In the 60's and 70's he went to prison four times for being part o a communist militia.

Twitter account: @GermanFerrer23

Representative of the Miranda state.
Born: 16/06/1970    ID: 9.989.579

Former Minister of Ground Transport with Maduro's government. He has held other governmental positions in the past, such as the Venezuelan representative at the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank or the OPEC's ministerial council.

Twitter account: @HaimanVZLA

Representative from the Monagas state.
Born: 29/04/1957    ID: 5.083.754

President of Gente Emergente party. Member of the Commission of Social Development of the National Assembly. 

Twitter account: @aparicio770

Representative from the Bolívar state.
Born:  02/08/1976    ID: 12.645.993

Member of La Causa Radical party since 2008. Former councillor at Caroní Municipality.

Twitter account: @JOSELPRAT

Representative of the Táchira state.
Born: 17/03/1989    ID: 18.757.028

Requesens was one of the leaders of the 2014 student demonstrations. On February 27 2017 he was wounded together with other two persons  after a 'Colectivo' group attacked the demonstration in which he was participating.

Twitter account: @JuanRequesens

Born: 22/10/1969

President of the National Assembly and co-founder of the party Primero Justicia with Henrique Capriles and Leopoldo López in 2000. He studied law at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, got a master's degree in philosophy at Boston College and a master's degree in public policy at the University of Oxford. He has been a deputy member of the National Assembly for the terms 2000-2005 and 2010-2015. 

Twitter account: @JulioBorges

The Radical Cause
A centrist party of Social liberalist ideology that holds 4 seats at the parliament. It was founded in 1971 by former members of the Communist Party of Venezuela. 

Twitter account: @LaCausaRVe

Born: 29/04/1971

Leader of Voluntad Popular party and one of the main leaders of the opposition. He studied economics at Kenyon College of Ohio, United States and holds a master's degree from Harvard.

Leopoldo López was arrestes on February 18, 2014 accused of arson, conspiracy, murder and terrorism charges. The accusations are mostly originated from the 2014 demonstrations against the government that he led and resulted in several participants killed by the police forces. Leopoldo was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He spent 3 years at the military prison of Ramo Verde until being transferred to house arrest on 8 July, 2017. As Antonio Ledezma, he was sent back to prison on August 1, 2017 after the SEBIN raid into his home. He is currenly at prison.

Leopoldo López started on politics back in 2000, when he joined Primero Justicia. In 2007 he moved to Un Nuevo Tiempo, until he founded Voluntad Popular on 2009. He has been the mayor of the Chacao Municipality between 2000 and 2008.

Venezuela's Comptroller's Office imposed him administrative sanctions disqualifying him from holding public office for six years beginning in 2008, at the completion of his term as mayor in 2014, when he got arrested, Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a unanimous ruling in his favor, but it was ignored by Venezuelan officials.

His wife, Lilian Tintori (@liliantintori) is his spokesperson. Lilian has travelled around the world and met several governmental representatives to inform about the situation of her husband. On August 29, 2017 police found around 10.000 $ in Lilian's car in Venezuelan currency.  She is currently being investigated for that reason and has been forbidden to leave the country.

BBC Profile about Leopoldo López

Twitter account: @leopoldolopez

Student and a leader of the 2014 student demonstrations with palestinian roots. President of the ONG Operación Libertad, which was created by Saleh and other young Venezuelans in 2009 for making tours accross the country denouncing the actions of Hugo Chávez, who still was the president of Venezuela.

In February 2011, Saleh, who was then the coordinator of Juventud Activa Venezuela Unida (Active Venezuelan Youth United), a student organisation, started a hunger strike with other 13 members of the organisation in front of the OEA building in Caracas to demand of several political prisoners, among them the current deputy of the National Assembly Biaggio Pilieri.

In January 2013, police officers prevented him to take a plane to Costa Rica and nulified his passport. On February 19, 2014, Saleh goes to Colombia searching for support against the Venezuelan government. In August 27, 2014 he starts studying at the Superior School of War (Escuela Superior de Guerra) of Colombia. The 4 of September 2014, he was arrested and deported to the Venezuelan Authorities, who imprisoned him in a prison named "the tomb".

He has been in prison since then. His family has reported that his health has deteriorated. There hasn't been any trial against him, since authorities have delay it 42 times. Some MEPs have expressed their concerns about his health at the European Parliament.

His spokesperson is his mother, Yamile Saleh Rojas (@yamisaleh).

The government accuse Lorent Saleh of being part of a terrorist group and plan to attack chavist politicians. The version of the government can be found in an article of the public Venezuelan television Telesur, usually used to spread the government's propaganda,

Twitter account: @LORENT_SALEH

Representative of the Nueva Esparta state.
Born: 09/06/1957    ID: 4.006.752

He is professor at the Central University of Venezuela and at Saint Mary University. He is also the vice-president of the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur)


Twitter account: @rondonle

Representative of the Lara state.
Born: 18/09/1966    ID: 9.611.245

He has claimed that the government doesn't allow him to renew his passport and that migration workers of the Maiquetía Airport didn't allow him to leave the country. 

Twitter account: @LuisFlorido

Representative of the Aragua state.
Born: 08/12/1972    ID: 11.070.822

Member of the Commission of Internal policies of the National Assembly. 

Twitter account: @MariMagallanesC

Representative of the Vargas state.
Born: 1964?    ID: 8.177.949

Twitter account: @Milagroseulate

Progressive Movement of Venezuela
A centre-left party that holds 4 seats at the parliament. It was created in 2012 by former members of Patria Para Todos, a party member of the GPP.

Twitter account: @M_Progresista

Communist Party of Venezuela
A party of marxist-leninist ideology that holds 5 seats at the parliament.

United Socialist Party of Venezuela
It is the party created by the former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez. Its current leader is the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The vicepresident of PSUV is Diosdado Cabello, former president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. 
The ideology of the party is the chavism, the socialist way created by Hugo Chávez. 
It holds 37 seats at the parliament. 

Twitter account: @PartidoPSUV

Homeland for All
A leftist party that holds 4 seats at the parliament. It was founded in 1997 by members of the party "La Causa Radical". 

For Social Democracy
A centre-left party of social democracy ideology. It joined the MUD for the 2010 elections, but later it joiened again the GPP after a change of leadership.
Its name is usually abreviated as Podemos, which in Spanish means "We can".
It holds one seat at the parliament.

Justice First
It is a centrist party and the biggest party of the opposition MUD. Its main leaders are Julio Borges and Henrique Capriles, who has been the opposition's candidate for the last two presidential elections. It holds 32 seats at the parliament. 

Twitter account: @Pr1meroJusticia

Project Venezuela
A centre-right political party of Christian democracy ideology. Its leader is Henrique Salas Römer, a 81 years-old economist from Yale. It holds one seat at the parliament.

Representative of the Capital District.
Born: 27/12/1964    ID: 7.660.035

Current president of the party Alianza Bravo Pueblo. He went to prison for seven months (August 2009 - April 2010) accused of agression to a Metropolitan Police Officer called  Jonathan Bermúdez. On March 14 2017 he denounced an agression from the SEBIN (Venezuelan Intelligence Service) to him and two other persons while they were at an political event.

Twitter account: @RichardBlancoOf

Representative of the Guárico state.
Born: 03/11/1957    ID: 4.310.161

He is a former Division General of the Venezuelan Air Force . As a member of the Air Force, he participated in the Cantaura massacre of 1982. The Human Rights organisation PROVEA demanded the National Assembly to remove his parliamentary immunity to investigate his involvement in the massacre.

Twitter account: @corderolarapsuv and @corderolara01

Representative of the Aragua state.
Born: 31/01/1974    ID: 11.232.835

Besides politician, he is also an actor and a singer. He was elected as a substitute deputee and became an acting deputee on August 3, 2016 when Ricardo Antonio Molina gave up to become Minister of Transport and Public Works. 

Twitter account: @RoqueValero

In September each year MEPs can nominate candidates for the Sakharov Prize. Each nominee must have the support of at least 40 MEPs, and each individual Member may support only one nominee. Signed nominations accompanied by supporting evidence are then assessed in a joint meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Committee on Development (DEVE).

A shortlist of three candidates is drawn up through a vote by AFET and DEVE committees, and then submitted to the Conference of Presidents for a final vote. The winner is usually announced in October, and the award ceremony takes place in December at plenary sitting in Strasbourg.

The 2017 winner of the Sakharov prize was the Democratic Opposition in Venezuela.

Representative of the Capital District.
Born: 13/08/1980    ID: 14.775.070

Stalin González has been an active leader of the student demonstrations. He is member of the Commission of Defense and security of the National Assembly.

Twitter account: @stalin_gonzalez

Representative of the Zulia state.
Born: 21/08/1955    ID: 4.254.097

He started in politics as a member of Acción Democrática, being elected for the National Assembly in 1998. From his seat he made an strong opposition to Hugo Chávez. In 2004 he joined the party Alianza Bravo Pueblo until 2006, when he then joined Polo Democrático Alternativo (Alternative Democratic Pole ), a party that was dissolved in 2007 to join the party Un Nuevo Tiempo. This is his second term as deputy of the National Assembly after the period of 1998.

Twitter account: @TimoteoZambrano

Tupamaro Revolutionary Movement
A far-left party of marxist ideology which holds 3 seats at the parliament.
The party has allegedly ties with the Colombian FARC. 
The party is also one of the most prominent "colectivos", which are  pro-Government armed groups. They have a broad record of harassing opposition leaders, attacking opposition demonstrations and even murdering. 

A New Era
It is a centre-left party of social democracy ideology that holds 17 seats at the parliament. It was created in the Zulia state, from where receives most of its votes. It is member of the Socialist International since 2013. 

Twitter account: @partidoUNT

Republican Bicentennial Vanguard
It is a left party of chavist ideology that holds one seat at the parliament. Their ideology is similar to the government's party PSUV (based on the socialist ideas of Hugo Chávez), but are critical with Maduro's government. 

It is composed of 167 seats. There are 3 electoral coalitions:
-The MUD (Mesa de Unidad Democrática = Democratic Unity Roundtable), which holds 112 seats. It is includes centrist, centre-right and centre-left parties from the opposition.
-The GPP (Gran Polo Patriótico = Great Patriotic Pole), which holds 53 seats. It includes left parties from the government.
-The FBA (Frente Bolivariano Alternativo = Alternative Bolivarian Front). It is a minor electoral coalition of deputees critical with Maduro's government that only holds two seats. They define themselves as chavists but don't agree with Maduro's government neither with the Constituent National Assembly. 

Three seats are reserved for representatives of Venezuela's indigenous peoples and elected separately by all citizens, not just those with indigenous backgrounds. Currently, the three indigenous seats are part of the opposition. 
There are two seats from the government GPP that are currently empty since many of the members and substitutes fled to the newly created Constituent National Assembly. 

Twitter account: @AsambleaVE

Come Venezuela
It is a party created in 2012 by Maria Corina Machado, of classical liberalism ideology. It hold one seat at the parliament.

Popular Will
It is a  centrist and social-democratic political party that holds 15 seats at the parliament. It is member of the Socialist International.
The party declares that its "fundamental pillars" are progress, democracy, and social action.

Twitter account: @VoluntadPopular

Representative of the Carabobo state.
Born: 01/04/1965    ID: 18.603.237

President of the Un Tiempo Nuevo party branch in the Carabobo state. Member of the Commission of Media of the National Assembly. In 2015, Diosdado Cabello, vice-president of PSUV, accussed him of being a "rich businessman" for owning three lottery agencies and the companies J & I de la Costa, C.A and Hotel El Turista, C.A.

Twitter account: @ylidio

Born: 08/11/1984

He is a politician and one of the main leaders of the student demonstrations that started in 2007 sparked by the Constitutional reforms that the chavist government wanted to apply and were rejected y population on a referendum.

Both his parental and maternal grandparents were from Spain (Basque Country and Canary Islands), For that reason, Spain gave him the Spanish nationality on December 23 of 2016, which helds together with the Venezuelan nationality.

The intelligence service of Venezuela (SEBIN) arrested him on August 29 of 2016. He was accussed of possession of explosive detonators, but no evidences were provided. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights criticised his detention. After 14 months in a SEBIN's prison, he was freed on November 4 of 2017, after being awarded the Sakharov prize by the European Parliament.

On September 4, 2017, Goicoechea writed an article on The New York Times from prison.

Goicoechea has been member of Primero Justicia between a 2008 and 2016. He joined in 2016 Voluntad Popular in 2016 shortly before being arrested. After regaining his freedom, he proposed himself as candidate for the town council of El Haltillo with the support of the party Avanzada Progresista.

Twitter account: @YonGoicoechea