Fatherland for All (''Patria Para Todos'', PPT) is a leftist

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. It was founded on September 27, 1997 by members of The Radical Cause party led by

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and

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. In 1998 the PPT supported the first presidential candidacy of Hugo Chávez. It is currently led by Rafael Uzcátegui. In the 2015 legislative elections held on 6 December, Fatherland for All backed the governmental electoral alliance

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(GPP). On this occasion, the party did not win any constituency representative out of 167 seats available at the unicameral

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. Thus, it has no deputies of its own for the 2016–2021 term and is bound by law (in Spanish) to renew its credentials with the National Electoral Council to keep functioning as a political party. In the previous 2010 legislative elections, Fatherland for All had won 2 out of 165 seats in the

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TSJ designó a Rafael Uzcátegui como Secretario General del PPT
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