Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 4 December 2005 to elect the 167 deputies to the National Assembly of Venezuela,twelve deputies to the Latin American Parliament and five deputies to the Andean Parliament. Several days prior to the elections,five opposition parties unexpectedly withdrew,shortly after a dispute over the voting process had apparently been resolved with the support of the Organization of American States (OAS). The opposition had been expected to get around a third of the Assembly seats,or even less;the withdrawal meant the opposition were scarcely represented in the parliament at all,as the opposition parties which did not withdraw failed to win any seats. 114 seats went to the President's Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) –up from 86,with the remaining 53 going to "smaller pro-Chávez parties as well as to independents and representatives of some social groups that support the government".
Regional elections were held in Venezuela on 23 November 2008 to choose 22 governors and 2 metropolitan mayors. The candidates were selected for a term beginning in 2008 and ending in 2012,when the next regional elections will be held. The 2008 regional elections were the second during the government of Hugo Chávez Frías and the first since he founded the United Socialist Party.
Antonio JoséLedezma Díaz is a Venezuelan lawyer,opposition politician and former political prisoner. After unsuccessfully challenging for the leadership of Democratic Action in 1999,he founded a new party,the Fearless People's Alliance.
Henri Falcón Fuentes is a Venezuelan politician,lawyer,and retired Bolivarian Army non-commissioned officer. He served as mayor for two consecutive terms of Barquisimeto,Iribarren Municipality from 2000 to 2008 and as Governor of Lara from 2008 until 2017. He was a candidate in the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election.
The Democratic Unity Roundtable was a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election. A previous opposition umbrella group,the Coordinadora Democrática,had collapsed after the failure of the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum.
Popular Will is a political party in Venezuela founded by former Mayor of Chacao,Leopoldo López,who is its national co-ordinator. The party previously held 14 out of 167 seats in the Venezuelan National Assembly,the country's parliament,and is a member of the Democratic Unity Roundtable,the electoral coalition that held a plurality in the National Assembly between 2015 and 2020. The party describes itself as progressive and social-democratic,and was admitted into the Socialist International in December 2014. The party was formed in reaction to complaints of infringements of individual freedom and human rights on the part of the government of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and his successor,Nicolás Maduro. The party attempts to bring together Venezuelans of various backgrounds who consider Chavismo oppressive and authoritarian. Popular Will self-identifies itself as "a pluralist and democratic movement" that is committed to "progress",which it defines as the realization of "the social,economic,political,and human rights of every Venezuelan." The party says its "fundamental pillars" are progress,democracy,and social action.
Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2015 to elect the 164 deputies and three indigenous representatives of the National Assembly. They were the fourth parliamentary elections to take place after the 1999 constitution,which abolished the bicameral system in favour of a unicameral parliament,and the first to take place after the death of President Hugo Chávez. Despite predictions from the opposition of a possible last-minute cancellation,the elections took place as scheduled,with the majority of polls showing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) holding a wide lead over the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its wider alliance,the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP).
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 20 May 2018,with incumbent Nicolás Maduro being declared re-elected for a second six-year term. The original electoral date was scheduled for December 2018 but was subsequently pulled ahead to 22 April before being pushed back to 20 May. Some analysts described the poll as a sham election,as many prominent opposition parties had been barred from participating in it. The elections had the lowest voter turnout in Venezuela's democratic era.
Regional elections were held in Venezuela on 15 October 2017 to elect the executive position of all 23 federal entities. This marked the first state executive election not held on the same date as elections for state legislatures,and the second separate from municipal elections. They were the 9th regional elections held in Venezuela since 1989.
The primary elections of the Unity Roundtable were held on February 12,2012,and determined the presidential candidate of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) for the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election,which were held on October 7,As well as their candidates in the coming regional and municipal elections,to be held in December 2012 and December 2013 respectively. These were the first open presidential primaries in the history of Venezuela,and the largest of its kind and in participation in world history.
Freddy Guevara is a Venezuelan politician. He was elected deputy to the Venezuelan National Assembly for Circuit 2 of the Miranda State representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable in the parliamentary elections of December 6,2015. He has been a key figure of the opposition to Nicolás Maduro,Guevara was arrested in July 2021 charged with crimes against the state. The United States and others condemned the arrest as politically-motivated. In mid-August,he was freed as part of negotiations between the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition.
Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2020. Aside from the 167 deputies of the National Assembly who are eligible to be re-elected,the new National Electoral Council president announced that the assembly would increase by 110 seats,for a total of 277 deputies to be elected.
Rafaela Requesens is Venezuelan activist and student leader,former president of the Federation of the Students Center of the Central University of Venezuela (FCU–UCV) and an organiser of student protests in Venezuela. She was a prominent figure of the 2017 Venezuelan protests,along with her brother,Juan Requesens,and has since become a prominent democracy activist.
Agreement for Change was a Venezuelan coalition created on June 21,2018 by former 2018 presidential candidate and Chavismo defector Henri Falcón. The coalition initially integrated seven political parties opposed to the government of Nicolás Maduro. The alliance was committed to what they called the "democratic route" through mechanisms such as voting,dialogue,peaceful protests and the rejection of foreign intervention.
Luis Eduardo Parra Rivero is a Venezuelan politician who was in a dispute with Juan Guaidófor a year over who was the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela based on a vote on 5 January 2020.
Regional and municipal elections were held in Venezuela on 21 November 2021. In the elections,all executive and legislative positions of the 23 federal entities,as well as that of the 335 municipalities of the country,were renewed.
The Neighborhood Force is a centrist and localist Venezuelan political party,founded by a group of mayors and political leaders of the country on June 26,2021. The party governs throughout eastern Caracas —in the municipalities Baruta,El Hatillo,Los Salias and Chacao—less in the Sucre Municipality. The party also governs the municipalities Diego Bautista Urbaneja and Maneiro,in eastern Venezuela.
Venezuela First is a Venezuelan political party led by former members of the opposition coalition Democratic Unity Roundtable.
Venezuelan opposition to the Chavista governments of former President Hugo Chávez and current President Nicolás Maduro,commonly referred to as the Venezuelan opposition,or sometimes,anti-Chavismo,is a political umbrella term used to describe political,social and religious movements that have opposed Chavismo,and the associated Bolivarian Revolution political process since 2 February 1999.
