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2017 Democratic Unity Roundtable State Primaries
On the occasion of the regional elections convened in Venezuela in October 2017, which completed the previous term of Governors, the Bureau of Democratic Unity Democratic Unity (Spanish: ''Unidad Demócrata''; UD) was a center-left to center-right electoral and political coalition in Bolivia, formed on 17 June 2014 by the National Unity Front and the Social Democratic Movement to contest the 2014 gen ... had proposed the holding of primary elections to choose the unitary candidates to represent them and obtain the victory in each state and circuit. References {{Venezuelan elections 2017 in Venezuela Primary elections in Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Venezuelan Regional Elections
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 two main participants were the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition and the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) alliance of the ruling Bolivarian government. The election resulted in a victory for the GPP, which won 18 out of the 23 governorships, while the MUD won the remaining five. Four Democratic Action opposition governors elected decided to be sworn in under the GPP government-led National Constituent Assembly despite promises to never recognize the body. Irregularities Delayed elections Controversy arose surrounding on whether the election would be held or not since the National Electoral Council (CNE) had no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Superlano
Freddy Superlano Salinas (born 25 June 1976) is a Venezuelan politician, educator and engineer currently serving as a deputy for the Popular Will party in the National Assembly. He is an outspoken critic of Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). He was also a candidate for the Governor of Barinas state for the Democratic Unity Roundtable in 2017 election, which he lost to the pro-government candidate Argenis Chávez. Poisoning and theft On 23 February 2019, the same day as the Venezuelan opposition attempted to get humanitarian aid to Venezuela through the Colombia–Venezuela border, Superlano and his assistant were poisoned in Cúcuta, Colombia. His assistant and cousin, Carlos Salinas, subsequently died. The opposition asked for an investigation, without making "claims on who the culprits were". U.S. Senator Marco Rubio called the poisoning a "grave situation". Maduro-aligned state media claimed Superlano and his assistant were poisoned by prosti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guárico
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Un Nuevo Tiempo
A New Era ( es, Un Nuevo Tiempo, UNT) is a centre-left political party in Venezuela. It received 11% of the vote in the 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 Pablo Pérez Álvarez, previously Manuel Rosales) and the mayor of its largest city, Maracaibo (since 2010, currently, Eveling Trejo de Rosales). 12 candidates of ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' or supported by ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' were elected deputies to the National Assembly out of 15 in the September 2010 legislative elections. Along with some other opposition parties, ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' boycotted the December 2005 legislative elections. The party's previous leader was Manuel Rosales, Governor of Zulia (2000 - 2008). He was also its candidate for the 2006 presidential election, attracting 37% of the national vote. Omar Barboza is the current party president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falcón
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Delta Amacuro
Delta Amacuro State ( es, Estado Delta Amacuro, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, and is the location of the Orinoco Delta. The Paria Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean are found to the north, Bolívar State is found to the south, the Atlantic Ocean and Guyana are found to the east, and Monagas State is found to the west. The state capital city is Tucupita. Delta Amacuro State covers a total surface area of and, in 2011, had a census population of 171,413. History Pre-Colonial Period Based on theories, anthropological evidence and oral tradition, the antecedents of human activity within this territory date from the time of the first displacements through America; Groups from the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes were introduced into the Lower Orinoco, they are called Kotoch or Chavinses; They developed knowledge of pottery (of which formal and technical reminiscences in ceramics are kept), and horticulture. With time other groups established themselves in its surface, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cojedes (state)
, anthem = '' Himno del Estado Cojedes'' , image_map = Cojedes in Venezuela.svg , map_alt = , map_caption = Location within Venezuela , pushpin_map = , pushpin_map_alt = , pushpin_mapsize = , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Venezuela , subdivision_type1 = , subdivision_name1 = , subdivision_type2 = , subdivision_name2 = , established_title = Created , established_date = 1864 , founder = , named_for = , seat_type = Capital , seat = San Carlos , government_footnotes = , government_type = , leader_party = , governing_body= Legislative Council , leader_title = Governor , leader_name = Margaud Godoy (2017–2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carabobo
, anthem = '' Himno del Estado Carabobo'' , image_map = Carabobo in Venezuela.svg , map_alt = , map_caption = Location within Venezuela , pushpin_map = , pushpin_map_alt = , pushpin_mapsize = , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Venezuela , subdivision_type1 = , subdivision_name1 = , subdivision_type2 = , subdivision_name2 = , established_title = Created , established_date = 1824 , founder = , named_for = , seat_type = Capital , seat = Valencia , government_footnotes = , government_type = , leader_party = , governing_body= Legislative Council , leader_title = Governor , leader_name = Rafael Lacava (2017) , area_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vente Venezuela
Vente Venezuela ( es, Vente Venezuela) is a classical liberal political party in Venezuela headquartered in the city of Caracas. It has parliamentary representation in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre .... Its registration as a political party has not been granted by the National Electoral Council. Political ideology According to Vente Venezuela, the group "appeals to the principles of democrats and republicans" and "breaks from the traditional argument between the left and right". References External linksOfficial website {{Venezuelan political parties Political parties in Venezuela Liberal parties in Venezuela Classical liberal parties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Causa Radical
The Radical Cause ( es, La Causa Radical, LCR), stylized as La Causa Я, is a minor left-wing political party in Venezuela, and today part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Nicolás Maduro. At its peak in the early 1990s, the party came within touching distance of winning the 1993 presidential elections. However, the party split in 1997 when a number of members left to form Patria Para Todos, now part of the pro-government Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) electoral alliance. LCR has now lost much of its national profile, but retains some influence in its home region of Guayana. History Early history LCR was founded in 1971 by :es:Alfredo Maneiro, an intellectual and former guerrilla who had been expelled from the Communist Party of Venezuela. The new revolutionary socialist party grew quickly, benefiting from the collapse of the Communist Party. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the party focused on organizing factory workers in the Guayana region of Bolivar state through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Velásquez
Andrés Velásquez is a Venezuelan politician of the Radical Cause (''La Causa Radical'') party. Formerly the general secretary of the steelworkers union of SIDOR, he became one of the leaders of Radical Cause after the death of its founder, Alfredo Maneiro, in 1982. He was the governor of Bolívar State from 1989 to 1995, and a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2000 to 2006. In the 2000 Venezuelan regional elections he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Anzoátegui state. He was Radical Cause's candidate in the 1993 Venezuelan presidential election, coming fourth with 22% of the vote; Rafael Caldera became president with 30.5%. He had also been Radical Cause's candidate in the 1983 election and 1988 election, gaining less than 1% of the vote. In the Venezuelan regional elections, 2008 he ran again for governor of Bolívar state, coming second with 30% of the vote. Velásquez ran again for governor of Bolívar in 2012 and 2017 File:2017 Events Colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
