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Political Parties In Venezuela
This article lists political parties in Venezuela. Historically, Venezuela has had two major parties, along with numerous other minor parties. That system imploded at the 1998 elections into a multi-party system. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the Fifth Republic Movement emerged as a dominant party. Its position was continued by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (into which it merged on 20 October 2007), although it is not certain at all if this party system is going to remain stable through the following elections. List Alliances Major parties Other parties Parties with no representation in the National Assembly but recent electoral activity: * Esperanza por El Cambio ''(EL CAMBIO)'' *National Force ''(Fuerza Nacional)'' * Authentic Renewing Organization ''(Organización Renovadora Autentica)'' * Democratic Republican Union ''(Union Republicana Democrática)'' *Democratic Unity ''(Unión Democrática)'' * Ecological Movement of Venezuela ''(Movimiento Eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an area of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. Venezuela is a presidential republic consisting of States of Venezuela, 23 states, the Venezuelan Capital District, Capital District and Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital. The territory o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authentic Renewal Organization
The Authentic Renewal Organization (ORA) is an Evangelical and Pentecostal political party in Venezuela, originally founded in 1988 by Godofredo MarÃn and Carlos Mendez. The ORA does not align itself with any specific political ideology, but believes itself to be a form of government under the "sacred and noble Christian principles of love, peace, faith, and hope". History In its first electoral participation, the party nominated one of its founders, Godofredo Ramón MarÃn, as a candidate for the general elections of 1988. The electoral promise of the party was based on "governing Venezuela for five years according to the Evangelical Bible," but with only 0.87% of the votes, the party and the candidate did not obtain the results they had expected. Despite their poor performance in the elections, the organization obtained two seats in the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Republic. The deputies elected at that time were Mr. Gabriel Niño Laguado, representative of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A New Era
Un Nuevo Tiempo (Spanish for 'A New Era', UNT) is a centre-left politics, centre-left political party in Venezuela. It received 11% of the vote in the 2008 Venezuelan regional elections, 2008 regional elections. The party arose in Zulia State, Venezuela's most populous, and remains far stronger in its home region than elsewhere in the country, providing the state governor since 2000 (currently Manuel Rosales) and the mayor of its largest city, Maracaibo (since 2010, currently, Eveling Trejo de Rosales). Twelve candidates of ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' or supported by ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' were elected deputies to the National Assembly out of 15 in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election. Along with some other opposition parties, ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' boycotted the 2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election. The party's previous leader was Manuel Rosales, Governor of Zulia (2000–2008). He was also its candidate for the 2006 Venezuelan presidential election, 2006 presidential election, attr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice First
The Justice First () is a centre-right political party in Venezuela. Founded in 1992 as a civil association, it became a political party in 2000. Henrique Capriles was the candidate of the party in 2013 Venezuelan presidential election. History Justice First was created in 1992 as a civil association by a group of university students under the leadership of Alirio Abreu Burelli. The group was concerned about what they saw as a deterioration of judicial power in the country, and sought a reform of Venezuela's legal system. Abreu Burelli was magistrate of the federal Supreme Court of Justice and Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS). The association entered the political arena during the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, in which they presented a draft for the country's new constitution. Justice First became a political party in 2000, initially as a regional party, and registered as a national party with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ramos Allup
Henry Lisandro Ramos Allup (born 17 October 1943) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer and former President of the National Assembly who was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Valencia, Carabobo. He has been leader of the social democracy, social democratic Democratic Action (Venezuela), Democratic Action party, holding the position of Secretary-General. In 2016, following the decisive victory of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (an electoral coalition of which Democratic Action is part) in the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015 parliamentary election, Ramos Allup was chosen by members of the coalition to be President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, President of the National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly, succeeding Diosdado Cabello. Early life Henry Ramos was born on 17 October 1943 in Valencia, Carabobo, Valencia, Carabobo, son of Amanda Allup de Ramos and Emilio Ramos Rachid. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. He has one sister, Amanda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Action (Venezuela)
Democratic Action (, AD) is a Venezuelan social democratic and Centre-left politics, centre-left political party established in 1941. The party played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, leading the government during Venezuela's El Trienio Adeco, first democratic period (1945–1948). History of Venezuela (1948–1958), A decade of dictatorship under Marcos Pérez Jiménez followed, which saw AD excluded from power. With the Republic of Venezuela, advent of democracy in 1958, four President of Venezuela, Presidents of Venezuela came from Acción Democrática from the 1950s to the 1990s during Puntofijo Pact, the two-party period with COPEI. Since 2000, the party's general secretary has been Henry Ramos Allup. In the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election, AD backed the opposition electoral alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) which managed to grasp a supermajority. AD won 26 constituency representatives out of 167 seats in the unicameral National A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitary Platform
The Democratic Unitary Platform (; PUD), or just the Unitary Platform (; PU), is a Venezuelan Crisis in Venezuela, opposition political alliance made up of civil society, trade unions, retired military personnel, political parties, and deputies of the IV National Assembly of Venezuela, 2016–2021 National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly. History On April 21, 2021, Juan Guaidó presented a document on a new opposition alliance called the Unitary Platform, which integrates civil society, trade unions, retired military personnel, political parties and deputies of the National Assembly elected for the period 2016-2021 with more inclusive and comprehensive features. At the end of June 2021, the National Electoral Council (Venezuela), National Electoral Council (CNE) rehabilitated the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) as a national political party in order to participate in 2021 regional elections. On August 31, 2021, the MUD rejoined the Venezuelan electoral landscape with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200
The Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200 or MBR-200) was the political and social movement that the later Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez founded in 1982. It planned and executed the February 4, 1992 attempted coup. The movement evolved into the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR), set up in July 1997 to support Hugo Chávez's candidacy in the 1998 Venezuelan presidential election. Foundation The movement's first members were Chávez and his fellow military officers Felipe Acosta Carles and Jesús Urdaneta Hernández. On 17 December 1982, as Chávez biographer Richard Gott reports, The three revolutionary officers swore an oath underneath the great tree at Samán de Güere, near Maracay, repeating the words of the pledge that Simón BolÃvar had made in Rome in 1805, when he swore to devote his life to the liberation of Venezuela from Spanish yoke: "I swear before you, and I swear before the God of my fathers, that I will not all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Marxist Tendency
The Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) is a Trotskyist political international. It was founded as the Committee for a Marxist International (CMI) by British-based South African political theorist Ted Grant and his supporters after they broke with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992, and was subsequently renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) in 2004 before adopting its current name in June 2024. The organization's website, Marxist.com or In Defence of Marxism, is edited by Alan Woods. The site is multilingual, and publishes international current affairs articles written from a Marxist perspective, as well as many historical and theoretical articles. The international maintains a list of claimed national sections on its website. History Militant tendency was an entryist group within the British Labour Party based around the ''Militant'' newspaper that was founded in 1964. In 1974, Militant and its allies in Sweden, Ireland, and other count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Venezuela
The Communist Party of Venezuela (, PCV) is a communist party in Venezuela. Founded in 1931, it is the oldest active political party in Venezuela, and was the country's main leftist party until it fractured into rival factions in 1971. The PCV currently opposes the government of Nicolás Maduro. History The PCV was founded in 1931 as a clandestine organization during the military dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. It was initially led by Juan Bautista Fuenmayor and . The PCV became the Venezuelan affiliate of the Communist International. A forerunner of the PCV, the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party, had been founded in exile in Mexico in 1926 and attempted a rebellion in Venezuela in 1929. The PCV remained an illegal organization until 1941, when it entered into an alliance with the progressive military regime of IsaÃas Medina Angarita, following orders from Comintern for communist parties throughout the world to support governments that aided the allied war effort. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Revolutionary Alternative
The Popular Revolutionary Alternative (, APR) is a Venezuelan Chavismo, Chavista Political alliance, political coalition made up of Socialism, socialist and Left-wing politics, leftist Political party, parties critical of the administration of Nicolás Maduro. The coalition was created in the leadup to the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election to bring together the political forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution, as begun by Hugo Chávez, and who also seek to demarcate themselves from governmental policy. History Background The emergence of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative as a coalition coincided with a series of interventions by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela), Supreme Tribunal of Justice towards some of the left-wing parties in the Great Patriotic Pole, such as Tupamaro (Venezuela), Tupamaro and Fatherland for All, Patria Para Todos. The Communist Party of Venezuela also denounced surveillance by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, Bolivarian Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavismo
''Chavismo'' (from ), also known in English as Chavism or Chavezism, is a left-wing populist political ideology based on the ideas, programs and government style associated with the Venezuelan President between 1999 and 2013 Hugo Chávez that combines elements of democratic socialism, socialist patriotism, Bolivarianism, and Latin American integration. People who supported Hugo Chávez and ''Chavismo'' are known as ''Chavistas''. Policies Several political parties in Venezuela support ''Chavismo''. The main party, founded by Chávez, is the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (), usually referred to by the four letters PSUV). Other parties and movements supporting ''Chavismo'' include Fatherland for All (Spanish: ''Patria Para Todos'' or PPT) and '' Tupamaros''. Broadly, ''Chavismo'' policies include nationalization, social welfare programs and opposition to neoliberalism (particularly the policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank). According to Chà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
