United Socialist Party of Venezuela
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United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela |
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| President | Nicolás Maduro |
| Vice President | Diosdado Cabello |
| Founder | Hugo Chávez |
| Founded | March 24, 2007 |
| Preceded by | Fifth Republic Movement |
| Headquarters | Mariperez, Caracas |
| Newspaper | Cuatro F |
| Youth wing | United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth |
| Membership (2014) | 7,632,606 |
| Ideology |
Left-wing nationalism Bolivarianism Anti-capitalism Socialism of the 21st Century Left-wing populism |
| Political position | Left-wing to Far-left |
| National affiliation | Great Patriotic Pole |
| International affiliation | None |
| Regional affiliation |
COPPPAL, São Paulo Forum |
| Colors | Red |
| Seats in the National Assembly |
52 / 167
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| Seats in the Latin American Parliament |
4 / 12
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| Governors |
19 / 23
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| Mayors |
254 / 335
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The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a socialist political party in Venezuela which resulted from the fusion of some of the political and social forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution led by the late President Hugo Chávez. It has approximately 5.7 million members as of 2007. PSUV held primary elections on 2 May 2010 for candidates to the National Assembly election in September, with 2,568,090 members voting.
At the 2015 parliamentary election, PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the unicameral legislature's creation in 2000 against the Democratic Unity Roundtable, earning 55 out of the National Assembly's 167 seats.
The process of merging most of the unidentified parties involved in the pro-Bolivarian Revolution coalition was initiated by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez after he won the Venezuelan presidential election of 2006. The process was led by Chávez' own party, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was supported by a range of smaller parties such as the People's Electoral Movement (MEP), Venezuelan Popular Unity (UPV), the Tupamaro Movement, the Socialist League and others which all together added up 45.99% of the votes received by Chávez during the 2006 election. Other pro-Bolivarian parties like the Communist Party of Venezuela (Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV),Fatherland for All (Patria Para Todos, PPT) and For Social Democracy (PODEMOS), that cast 14.60% of the votes from that election, declined to join the new party.
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