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The Venezuelan regional elections, 2000 took place on 30 July 2000, alongside the
2000 Venezuelan parliamentary election General elections were held in Venezuela on 30 July 2000, the first under the country's newly adopted 1999 constitution. Incumbent President Hugo Chávez ran for election for a full 6-year term under the new Constitution. He was challenged by ano ...
and 2000 Venezuelan presidential election. The regional elections were for Venezuelan state governorships and mayorships. The
Fifth Republic Movement The Fifth Republic Movement (Spanish: ''Movimiento V uintaRepública'', MVR) was a socialist political party in Venezuela. It was founded in July 1997, following a national congress of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200, to support the ca ...
(supported by its Patriotic Pole partners) took 14 of the 23 governorships, while COPEI took 2 and joint Democratic Action- COPEI candidates took another 2. The new First Justice won two mayoral races for Chacao and Baruta.Neuman, Laura and McCoy, Jennifer, The Carter Center
Observing political change in Venezuela: the Bolivarian constitution and 2000 elections
February 2001, p65


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Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...
2000 in Venezuela
Election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
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