Editing Caracas (section)

== Government ==
On 8 March 2000, the year after a new constitution was introduced in Venezuela, it was decreed in ''Gaceta Official'' N° 36,906 that the Metropolitan District of Caracas would be created and that some of the powers of the [[Libertador Bolivarian Municipality|Libertador]], [[Chacao Municipality|Chacao]], [[Baruta Municipality|Baruta]], [[Sucre Municipality, Miranda|Sucre]], and [[El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda|El Hatillo]] municipalities would be delegated to the ''Alcaldía Mayor'', physically located in the large Libertador municipality, in the center of the city.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goldfrank|first1=Benjamin|title=Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left|date=2011|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-07451-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AqJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT190|language=en|page=190|access-date=6 June 2017|archive-date=15 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415113259/https://books.google.com/books?id=_AqJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT190|url-status=live}}</ref> The Metropolitan District of Caracas was suppressed on 20 December 2017 by the [[2017 Constituent National Assembly|Constituent National Assembly of Venezuela]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ANC aprobó supresión y liquidación del Área Metropolitana de Caracas|url=http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gobierno/anc-aprobo-supresion-liquidacion-del-area-metropolitana-caracas_216247|access-date=21 April 2018|publisher=El Nacional|date=20 December 2017|language=es|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143433/http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gobierno/anc-aprobo-supresion-liquidacion-del-area-metropolitana-caracas_216247|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Capital District ===
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In the case of the Libertador Municipality of Caracas, the only member of the Capital District, the [[Executive Power|executive]] authority rests with the head of government of the Capital District, a position designated by the president of the republic.

According to Article 3 of the Capital District Law, the legislative function is exercised directly by the Republic through the National Assembly of Venezuela.

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Before the creation of the Metropolitan District, the Federal District (current Capital District) had a governor appointed by the president of the republic, while the Caracas municipalities of the State of Miranda governed with their respective mayors in isolation, without any coordinating entity. In April 2009, the National Assembly reformed the Capital District Law, legalizing the constitution of a head of government or governor for the Libertador municipality designated by the National Executive.

Using as an argument what is established in article 156 of the constitution:

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=== Metropolitan District ===
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The city of Caracas occupies the entirety of the Libertador municipality of the Capital District and part of the state of Miranda, specifically the municipalities of Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo and Sucre, which until 2011 formed the Metropolitan District of Caracas, which enjoyed legal personality and autonomy within the limits of the Constitution and the law.

Until that year, the Metropolitan Mayor was the first civil, political and administrative authority of the city of Caracas, as well as the municipal mayors in each of the municipalities comprising it. The Metropolitan District of Caracas was organized in a system of municipal government at two levels: the metropolitan or district and the municipalities.