Rosmit Mantilla

Rosmit Mantilla (born 13 December 1982) is a Venezuelan politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Venezuela in the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election. He is noted as the first openly gay politician ever elected to the National Assembly. during the 2014–15 Venezuelan protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro. He was detained at El Helicoide.

He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, which lobbied for his release. A few months earlier it had been reported he had gallstones and was very ill. On November 15, 2016, his mother, Ingrid Flores, reported he had been transferred once again but this time to the Urólogico San Román to treat a stomach infection that was affecting his pancreas. On November 17, 2016, he was finally released after two and a half years in prison.

In 2020, he left Popular Will citing differences with the party's leadership. He has been a member of the centre-right Encuentro Ciudadano party since then.