Current President Of Venezuela 2025. Colombian president gustavo petro, a close maduro ally, said he would skip the event citing the detentions earlier in the week of another longtime venezuelan opposition member and a human rights defender. Edmundo gonzález urrutia, the opposition leader who declared himself the winner of venezuela’s controversial presidential elections on july 28 — a claim supported by voter.

His inauguration will defy the popular will. On january 10th nicolás maduro will be sworn in for his third term as president in the national assembly’s building nearby.