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Hermann Eduardo Escarrá Malave (born 8 April 1952) is a Venezuelan
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,
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and
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. He was a member of the National Constituent Assembly since 2017.


Political history


Education and opposition to Bolivarian government

Graduated with honors from the faculty of law of the
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, Escarrá was previously a member of the COPEI party. After the victory of
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 Republ ...
in the 1998 elections, he became a member of the
1999 Constituent National Assembly The Constituent National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional Constituyente) or ANC was a constitutional convention held in Venezuela in 1999 to draft a new Constitution of Venezuela, but the assembly also gave itself the role of a supreme power abov ...
representing the Fifth Republic Movement. Unlike his brother
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, who was a militant of the ruling party, Escarrá strongly criticized Chavez in the coming years, filing appeals in the Supreme Tribunal of Justice against the president's actions, calling to ignore the government in December 2007 with a march to return to Miraflores, calling for an indefinite strike as parliamentarian after the expropriations in the South of the Lake of 2010, and describing in 2010 the Communes Law and the Communal Parliament as "a coup d'etat to the Constitution."


Support of the Bolivarian government

In September 2012, Escarrá made harsh criticisms of a supposed government plan that was attributed to Henrique Capriles and the campaign command of the Democratic Unity Roundtable. The opposition candidate declared that the documents and program made public by VTV and criticized by Escarrá were false and were not part of his campaign promise. These statements coincided with that of other political figures of the opposition and the support of President
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, thus generating an approach between both. Estas declaraciones coincidieron con la de otras figuras políticas de la oposición y el apoyo del presidente Chávez, generando así un acercamiento entre ambos. After
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was elected as the new
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in April 2013, he served as an adviser and collaborator on constitutional issues; He has been named member of the dialogue tables with the opposition and of the Truth, Justice and Peace Commission. During the counting of signatures of the stage of promotion of the presidential referendum of Venezuela from 2016–2017, he was a legal consultant to the governmental commission for the recall. Following the
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, Escarrá is currently a member of the presidential commission for the 2017 National Constituent Assembly for the circuit of Guatire, Miranda. In October of the same year, Escarrá proposed to the new Venezuelan constitution of Venezuela to punish citizens who commit treason against the fatherland.


Sanctions

On 9 August 2017, the
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placed sanctions on Escarrá for his position in the Presidential Commission in the
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. Months later,
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sanctioned Escarrá on 22 September 2017 due to alleged "rupture of Venezuela's constitutional order." On 29 March 2018, Escarrá was sanctioned by the Panamanian government for his alleged involvement with "money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Escarrá, Hermann 1952 births 20th-century Venezuelan lawyers People of the Crisis in Venezuela Copei politicians Fifth Republic Movement politicians United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians People from Miranda (state) Living people Central University of Venezuela alumni Members of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 1999 Members of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 2017