Carlos Escarrá Malavé (26 November 1954 – 25 January 2012) was a
Venezuela
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n politician.
Career
He served as attorney general of Venezuela and a member of the
National Assembly of Venezuela
The National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional) is the legislature for Venezuela that was first elected in 2000. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members, who were elected by a "universal, direct, personal, and secret" vo ...
for
Aragua State
Aragua State ( es, Estado Aragua, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. It is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains and jungles and Caribbean beaches. The most popular are Cata and Choroni. It has Venezuela's first ...
,
['' El Universal, 14 August 2009]
Pro-Chávez legislators pass new education law
' and was a member of the board of directors of the
United Socialist Party of Venezuela
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( es, Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a left-wing to far-left socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since 2010. It was formed from a merger of some of the p ...
(PSUV). He was a
constitutional
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When these princip ...
lawyer and a former judge for the
Supreme Court of Venezuela
The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela was Venezuela's highest court until the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela replaced it with the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
Under the 1961 Constitution of Venezuela, Supreme Court justices were elected by j ...
. In August 2011, he was chosen as attorney general by lawmakers allied with President
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Repub ...
.
Escarrá died of a
heart attack
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on January 25, 2012, and was replaced by
Cilia Flores
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro (born 15 October 1956) is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. She is married to the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, making her the First Lady. Since 2015, she has also been a deputy in the National Assembly o ...
.
References
1954 births
2012 deaths
Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela)
United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians
21st-century Venezuelan judges
20th-century Venezuelan lawyers
Government ministers of Venezuela
Fifth Republic Movement politicians
Communist Party of Venezuela politicians
Central University of Venezuela alumni
Attorneys general of Venezuela
Members of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 1999
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