Juan Manuel Raffalli Arismendi is a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

n constitutional lawyer, law professor, and politician. Raffalli graduated from

Andrés Bello Catholic University Andrés Bello Catholic University also known in Spanish as Universidad Católica Andrés Bello is a private university in Venezuela. One of the largest universities in Venezuela, UCAB has campuses in several cities, such as Caracas (where the mai ...

(UCAB) in 1986, and received his law degree, focused on

procedural law Procedural law, adjective law, in some jurisdictions referred to as remedial law, or rules of court, comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings. The rules are ...

, from UCAB in 1989. He has been a law professor at three Venezuelan universities: UCAB (where he was also the head of the Law Department), Monte Ávila University, and the Institute for Superior Administrative Studies. He is a partner with the law firm of Raffalli de Lemos Halvorssen Ortega and Ortiz. Raffalli founded the Constitutional Forum of Venezuela and was president of the Justice and Democracy Foundation. He served as a director for the Caracas Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and as a member of the legal committee for the Venezuelan–American chamber of commerce (VENAMCHAM). He served in Venezuela's parliament as an alternate deputy to the National Assembly, and assisted the opposition

Democratic Unity Roundtable The Democratic Unity Roundtable ( es, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) was a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of ...

( es, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) in dialogue with the government of

Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro Moros (; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and president of Venezuela since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019. Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade unio ...

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