Un Nuevo Tiempo

Un Nuevo Tiempo
PresidentManuel Rosales
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)
HeadquartersUrbanización La Castellana, Av. Principal de La Castellana, Torre Multinvest,
piso 1 Chacao, Maracaibo
IdeologySocial democracy
Progressivism
Reformism
Political positionCentre-left
National affiliationUnitary Platform
International affiliationSocialist International
Colours      Blue, red, white
SloganEs democracia social. El buen Gobierno
("It Is Social Democracy. It Is Good Government.")
National Assembly
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Governors
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Mayors
7 / 337
Website
www.partidounnuevotiempo.org[dead link]

Un Nuevo Tiempo (Spanish for 'A New Era', UNT) is a centre-left[1] 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).

Twelve candidates of Un Nuevo Tiempo or supported by Un Nuevo Tiempo were elected deputies to the National Assembly out of 15 in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election. Along with some other opposition parties, Un Nuevo Tiempo boycotted the 2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election. 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.[2] UNT was admitted into the Socialist International as a consultative member at the SI's spring congress on 4–5 February 2013.[3] It became a full member in 2017.[4] On May 6, 2016, the party reported that a local party leader named Germán Mavare,[5] in Barquisimeto, Lara, had been killed by a gunshot to the head.[6][7]

  1. ^ Brading, Ryan (2013), Populism in Venezuela, Routledge, pp. 132, 152
  2. ^ (in Spanish) UNT, Comando Angostura: El llamado es a votar el 15 de febrero[permanent dead link] (visited February 21, 2009)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Decisions on membership taken during the inter-congress period ratified by the XXV Congress", Socialist International. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  5. ^ "Venezuela: Dirigente opositor muere tras recibir disparo en la cabeza". 6 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Asesinan en Lara a dirigente de Un Nuevo Tiempo, Germán Mavare". Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Leader of opposition party in Venezuela assassinated | Fox News Latino". Fox News. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.