Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has appointed an ex-Security Minister, Tareck El Aissami, as Country's Vice President. In a televised cabinet meeting, President Maduro said, he has appointed Tareck El Aissami as Executive Vice President of the Republic so that he can take up the role from 2017 to 2018 with his youth, experience, commitment and courage. <br/><br/>Governor of the violent northern state of Aragua, El Aissami served as junior Security Minister and later Interior and Justice Minister under Maduro's late predecessor Hugo Chavez. Country's center-right opposition has been demanding a popular vote on removing President Nicolas Maduro from office. It blames him for an economic crisis that has prompted shortages of food and medicine and deadly riots. Under constitutional rules, if Maduro lost a referendum held after January 10 this year, he could pass power to his handpicked Vice-president.