The Simón Bolívar Great Patriotic Pole ( es, Gran Polo Patriótico Simón Bolívar, GPPSB) is a
left-wing
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socialist
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and
chavist electoral alliance
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popular front
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More generally, it is "a coalition ...
of
Venezuela
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n political parties created in 2012 to support the re-election of
Hugo Chávez
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in the
2012 presidential election.
The organisation, which formally unites 35,000 Venezuelan movements and
collectives
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,
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