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. He was mayor for two consecutive terms of Barquisimeto,Iribarren Municipality (2000–2008) and governor of Lara State (2008–2017). He was a candidate in the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election.
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. Observers have also described it as being centrist,or centre-left.
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.
The 2017 Venezuelan protests began in late January following the abandonment of Vatican-backed dialogue between the Bolivarian government and the opposition. The series of protests originally began in February 2014 when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested due to high levels of criminal violence,inflation,and chronic scarcity of basic goods because of policies created by the Venezuelan government though the size of protests had decreased since 2014. Following the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis,protests began to increase greatly throughout Venezuela.
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.
The 2017 Venezuelan protests were a series of protests occurring throughout Venezuela. Protests began in January 2017 after the arrest of multiple opposition leaders and the cancellation of dialogue between the opposition and Nicolás Maduro's government.
A referendum was held in Venezuela on 16 July 2017. The referendum was called by the National Assembly in response to the constitutional crisis and President Nicolás Maduro's plans for a Constituent Assembly. The referendum was an act of civil disobedience in the context of the application of Articles 333 and 350 of the Venezuelan constitution,with the articles calling for Venezuelans to "disown any regime ... that violates democratic values",especially since the National Electoral Council and the Supreme Tribunal of Justice were not recognized in the referendum. The opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) announced that there would be 2,030 areas for the popular consultation nationwide to serve more than 19 million voters.
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. A key figure of the opposition to controversial Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro,Guevara was arrested in July 2021 for crimes against the state,although 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 a former president of the Federation of the Students Center of the Central University of Venezuela (FCU–UCV),an organiser of student protests in Venezuela,and an activist in the country. She was a prominent figure of the 2017 Venezuelan protests,along with her brother,Juan Requesens,and has since become a prominent democracy activist.
Juan Gerardo GuaidóMárquez is a Venezuelan opposition politician. He belonged to the social-democratic party Popular Will,and was a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. On 23 January 2019,Guaidóand the National Assembly declared that he was acting president of Venezuela,starting the Venezuelan presidential crisis by challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency. In December 2022,opposition parties voted to dismiss Guaidóas interim president,choosing Dinorah Figuera as a successor on 5 January 2023 and ending Guaidó's presidential claim.
The negotiations during the crisis in Venezuela are the negotiation and dialogue attempts and processes between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition. Although numerous dialogue processes and roundtables have taken place,by 2023 none had been effective in achieving a solution to the country's crisis.
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.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Venezuela by 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. Leading opposition candidates have been disqualified from participating in the election during campaign or in previous elections. In June 2023,the leading candidate María Corina Machado was barred from participating by the Venezuelan government for alleged political crimes. This move has been regarded by the opposition as violation of political human rights and has been condemned by international bodies like the Organization of American States,the European Union,and Human Rights Watch,as well as countries such as Colombia,Paraguay,Uruguay,Ecuador,United States,United Kingdom,Germany,Chile,Canada,France and Mexico.
The 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election was to be held in the ordinary session of the National Assembly on 5 January,in which 160 deputies were to elect the legislature's board of directors for the year 2020–21:the president,the first and second vice presidents,the secretary and the deputy secretary. It was the last such election of the IV National Assembly.
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.
Operación Alacrán,also known as CLAP affair or PSUV-CLAP faction,is the name given to a corruption plot which was denounced in 2019 by the members of the National Assembly of Venezuela. It would have sought to avoid the re-election of Juan Guaidóon 5 January 2020 as President of the Assembly,by obtaining the support of opposing legislators in exchange for millions of dollars. Legislators would have been asked to vote against Guaidó,or to not attend the election and thereby break the necessary quorum.
The Venezuelan opposition,also known as opposition to Chavismo or anti-Chavismo,is a political umbrella term to all those political,social and religious factors that have opposed the Chavismo governments of the so-called Bolivarian Revolution of former President Hugo Chávez and current President Nicolás Maduro that have governed Venezuela since 2 February 1999.
