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Democratic Unity Roundtable Mesa de la Unidad Democrática | |
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| Founded | 23 January 2008 |
| Dissolved | 21 April 2021[citation needed] |
| Succeeded by | Unitary Platform |
| Ideology | Liberal democracy Anti-Chavism[1] Factions: Christian democracy Social democracy[2] Social liberalism[3] Progressivism Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Centre[A][4] |
| Colors | (Venezuelan national colors) Blue (customary) |
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| unidadvenezuela.org | |
^ A: MUD includes a few centre-left and centre-right parties as well. | |
The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Spanish: Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) was a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election.[5] A previous opposition umbrella group, the Coordinadora Democrática, had collapsed after the failure of the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum.
The coalition was made of primarily centrist and centre-left parties.[4][failed verification] The main components were Democratic Action and Copei, the two parties who dominated Venezuelan politics from 1959 to 1999. Since the 2013 Venezuelan presidential election, Justice First became the largest opposition party, and Henrique Capriles Radonski became the leader of the opposition.
In the 2015 parliamentary election, the coalition became the largest group in the National Assembly with 112 out of 167 (a supermajority), ending sixteen years of PSUV rule of the country's unicameral parliament. In the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, the MUD boycotted the election, and as the National Assembly itself lost most of its power, PSUV retook its parliamentary majority.[6]
In July 2018, Democratic Action, one of the largest and most distinguished parties of the MUD, said they will leave the coalition.[7]
- ^ Meza, Alfredo (7 December 2015). "¿Quiénes forman en Venezuela la Mesa de Unidad Democrática?". El País.
- ^ Fernández Álvarez, Ángel (29 April 2018). Salvemos Venezuela.
And that, the truth, is a latent risk because the only thing that appears until now, is the plan of the social-democratic parties united in the so-called MUD.
- ^ "Ante la situación en Venezuela ¿Podrá continuar la MUD sin definir un líder?". MiamiDiario (in Spanish). 8 March 2017. Archived from the original on 30 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
the Democratic Unity Table (MUD), when it was formed as the coalition of the opposition parties of Venezuela, to face the government of the late Hugo Chávez. But it has been a difficult path that has transited until now, because they converge 20 parties ranging from social democracy to liberalism
- ^ a b "AFP: La oposición venezolana, un bloque contra Maduro dividido y debilitado". El Nacional (in Spanish). 26 October 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
Gathered in the Democratic Unity Table (MUD), which was born in 2008 to confront President Hugo Chávez, the opposition includes center, center-left, left parties and dissidents of Chavismo
- ^ "Partidos de oposición conforman Mesa de la Unidad Democrática". Noticiasve.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "Venezuela opposition boycotts meeting on Maduro assembly, clashes rage". Reuters. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "Ramos Allup: No vamos a construir ninguna otra plataforma". El Nacional (in Spanish). 5 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.