Fifth Republic Movement

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Fifth Republic Movement Movimiento Quinta República
Leader	Hugo Chávez
Founded	21 October 1997
Dissolved	20 October 2007
Merged into	PSUV
Headquarters	Plaza Venezuela, Caracas
Ideology	Socialism of the 21st century Bolivarianism Chavismo Left-wing populism
Political position	Far-left[1]
International affiliation	São Paulo Forum
Website
Official site
Politics of Venezuela Political parties Elections

The Fifth Republic Movement (Spanish: Movimiento V [Quinta] República, 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 candidacy of Hugo Chávez, the former President of Venezuela, in the 1998 presidential election. The "Fifth Republic" refers to the fact that in 1997 the Republic of Venezuela was the fourth in Venezuelan history, and the Movement aimed to re-found the Republic through a constituent assembly. Following Chávez' 1998 election victory, this took place in 1999, leading to the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela.

At the legislative elections on 30 July 2000, the party won 91 out of 165 seats in the National Assembly. On the same day, Hugo Chávez was elected president in the presidential elections with 59.5% of votes. In the parliamentary elections of 4 December 2005, the party won 114 out of 167 seats, with allied parties winning the remaining seats.

In December 2006 and January 2007, the party started its dissolution, to form the proposed United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). It merged into the PSUV on 20 October 2007.