During Nicolás Maduro government, there have been several interventions of political parties in Venezuela. The interventions are mandated by the pro-government Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ by its initials in Spanish). During these interventions, the leadership or most of the political party members end up suspended, expelled or replaced by members appointed by the TSJ.
The interventions have replaced the directive boards of historically important Venezuelan political parties like Copei and Democratic Action who have opposed Chavismo, but also interventions have been acted on some pro-Chavismo leaning parties like the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV).
History
Background
On May 15, 2013, when an ad-hoc board led by Pedro Celestino Veliz was appointed as leader of the Red Flag Party, ignoring an internal party assembly in which Gabriel Puerta Aponte he was re-elected as secretary general In 2014, the old leadership was restored. In 2015, the rights on the electoral symbol was given to Pedro Veliz Acuña.
On 27 August 2019, the TSJ suspended the board of directors of the Copei to appoint a board of directors chaired by Miguel Salazar. Previously, the National Social Christian Assembly elected Mercedes Malavé on March 27, 2019.
In May 2020, Tarek William Saab, the Attorney General appointed by the National Constituent Assembly, requested that the TSJ declare Popular Will as a "terrorist organization," which would lead to the prohibition of the party. Popular Will rejected said accusations.
2015 parliamentary election
On July 17, 2015, the TSJ dismissed the national board of the People's Electoral Movement, replacing the then Secretary General Wilmer Nolasco with Gilberto Jesús Jiménez Prieto. As a result of this fact, part of the militancy of the MEP decides to carry out the initiative that they called "MEP-Originario", splitting from the MEP appointed by the TSJ. In May 2017, they participated in the process of renewing the political parties of the National Electoral Council; however, the MEP was not re-legitimized.
Prior to the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election, the pro-government TSJ designated new leaders of COPEI, leading some to state that the party was infiltrated by the PSUV. By 2017, Caracas Chronicles said the party was "dying an undignified death" as infighting among leaders could not agree on a path for the party. Similar happened to the Ecological Movement of Venezuela.
On August 6, 2015 the TSJ issues and executes a judicial decision by which it suspends the National Directorate that existed before the measure and replaced by a new directive. The president of MIN-Barinas filed a lawsuit against the directive headed by Manuel Pérez Soto accused of disregarding regulations and the organs of the party. The Constitutional Chamber would appoint "an ad hoc board headed by Luz María Álvarez, Ramón Eduardo Odremán and the complainant himself as directors." The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition, of which MIN Unidad was a member, unanimously decided to suspend the party as a member of the referred coalition. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, the party was suspended.
For the 2015 parliamentary elections, the MIN was the subject of controversy for, among other things, running Chavista candidates, having as slogan "We are the opposition" and highlighting the word "Unity", which was also highlighted by the then Democratic Unity Roundtable main opposition coalition. The party even ran a candidate in the state of Aragua with the same name as the MUD candidate.
Likewise, the then president of the party appointed by the TSJ, Luz María Álvarez assured that the nomination of for the 2015 parliamentary elections was apparently the following: "The decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), with barely 12 hours before the closing of the presentation of nominations, forced us to make alliances with other organizations and William Ojeda 'snuck' in. When we made the corresponding claim and demanded his withdrawal, the factor that presented him threatened to withdraw all the candidates in that entity. That would have left us at a disadvantage because, with the withdrawal of Miranda, we would no longer be a national party. So we had to accept that contingency. We had to get the guy on board".
2020 parliamentary election
On 15 June 2020, the TSJ suspended the directive board of Democratic Action to appoint a new one presided by José Bernabé Gutiérrez, days after his brother José Luis Gutiérrez was appointed by the high court as rector of the National Electoral Council. The former was expelled from the party the following day.