Democratic Alliance (Venezuela)

Summary

The Democratic Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Democrática, AD) was a political coalition created to face the government of Nicolás Maduro in the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election and grouped in the National Assembly. It is made up of Hope for Change, Cambiemos and Progressive Advance parties of the predecessor coalition Agreement for Change, in addition to the intervened parties Democratic Action and Copei, and the later incorporated Primero Venezuela, United Venezuela, Ecological Movement, Unidad Vision Venezuela, Country Commitment and the also intervened Popular Will.[2][3]

Democratic Alliance
Alianza Democrática
AbbreviationAD
LeadersJavier Bertucci (El Cambio)
José Bernabé Gutiérrez (AD)
Juan Carlos Alvarado (Copei)
Timoteo Zambrano (CMC)
Henri Falcón (AP)
Luis Parra (PV)
Founded4 September 2020 (2020-09-04)
DissolvedAugust 2023 (2023-08)[1]
Split fromDemocratic Unity Roundtable
Preceded byAgreement for Change
IdeologyLiberal democracy
Factions:
Christian democracy
Social democracy
Social liberalism
Progressivism
Economic liberalism
Political positionBig tent
SloganThe Superior Unity for Venezuela
(Spanish: La Unidad Superior por Venezuela)
National Assembly
20 / 277
Governors
1 / 23
Mayors
13 / 335
Deputies of the Legislative Councils
8 / 251
Inter-Parliamentary Union
3 / 8
Parlatino
3 / 12
Website
Twitter page

AD was the successor coalition of the Agreement for Change, and later also of the United Venezuela Alliance.

History edit

Creation and origin edit

On 4 September 2020, representatives of five political parties of the Venezuelan opposition met with the CNE to formalize the nominations of candidates for the questioned parliamentary elections that will be held on 6 December 2020.[4] The coalition was called the Democratic Alliance, whose main characteristic is that the directives of the main opposition parties (AD, VP, COPEI) were changed via the Supreme Court, after a document was introduced in the judicial body requesting the creation of a new ad-hoc board of directors and thus their electoral cards will be enabled to participate in the elections.[5][6]

On 8 September 2020, in a ceremony held with the presence of national and international media, Javier Bertucci, president of the El Cambio party, announced a new unit called "Democratic Alliance" to participate in the controversial 2020 parliamentary elections.[7] The alliance had the purpose of achieving the departure of the Maduro government with an "electoral, democratic and constitutional" route, through active participation in the upcoming elections (governors and mayors), and then call a recall referendum.[8][9]

Political actions edit

Juan Carlos Alvarado, general secretary of Copei, said that the alliance nominated candidates in the 2020 parliamentary elections in the 24 state lists and 87 electoral districts of the country.[10] He mentioned that said alliance has a structure to defend the vote in the 14,509 voting centers and the more than 35,000 polling stations enabled for the elections to be held on 6 December 2020.[11]

The Ecological Movement joined the Democratic Alliance in some states such as Amazonas, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Lara, Mérida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Táchira, Trujillo, Vargas and Zulia.[12]

On December 9, the CNE published on its official website the bulletin that awards the 274 deputies by voting National, Regional and Nominal Lists. The coalition obtained the majority of the opposition votes, obtaining 1,169,363, representing 18.76% of the total participation.[13]

Subsequently, the dissident parties of Primero Venezuela of the deputies Luis Parra and José Brito, United Venezuela of the alternate deputy Chaim Bucarán and the judicially intervened party Popular Will of the also alternate José Gregorio Noriega were incorporated.

Composition edit

The Alliance was made up of 27 political parties, mentioned below:

Party Abbr. Ideology Position Leader National Assembly
  Democratic Action
Acción Democrática
(intervened)
AD Social democracy
Venezuelan nationalism
Centre-left José Bernabé Gutiérrez
8 / 277
  Hope for Change
Esperanza por El Cambio
El Cambio Christian democracy Centre Javier Bertucci
4 / 277
  COPEI
Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente
(intervened)
COPEI Social conservatism
Christian democracy
Economic liberalism
Centre to centre-right Juan Carlos Alvarado
3 / 277
  Progressive Advance
Avanzada Progresista
AP Social democracy
Progressivism
Centre-left Henri Falcon
2 / 277
  Venezuela First
Primero Venezuela
PV Humanism Luis Parra
2 / 277
Let's Change - Citizen's Movement
Cambiemos Movimiento Ciudadano
CMC Pluralism
Progressivism
Feminism
Centre-left Timoteo Zambrano
1 / 277
  Popular Will
Voluntad Popular
(intervened)
VP Centre to centre-left
0 / 277
United Venezuela
Venezuela Unida
VU Social democracy Centre-left
0 / 277
Ecological Movement of Venezuela
Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela
(intervened)
MOVEV Green politics
Environmentalism
Centre to centre-left Alejandro Aguilera
0 / 277
  Unity Vision Venezuela
Unidad Visión Venezuela
UVV Liberalism
Modern liberalism
Centre Omar Ávila
0 / 277
Country Commitment
Compromiso País
COMPA Social democracy
Liberal humanism
Centre to centre-left Olga Morey
0 / 277
  Movement for Socialism
Movimiento al Socialismo
MAS Democratic socialism
Market socialism
Social democracy
Progressivism
Centre-left to left-wing Felipe Mujica
0 / 277
  Republican Movement
Movimiento Republicano
(intervened)
MR Republicanism Centre
0 / 277
Procitizens
Prociudadanos
PRO Liberalism Centre-right Leocenis García
0 / 277
  Solutions for Venezuela
Soluciones para Venezuela
SPV Social democracy
Pluralism
Third way
Patriotism
Populism
Centre-left Claudio Fermín
0 / 277
  New Vision for my Country
Nueva Visión para mi País
(intervened)
NUVIPA Christian nationalism Centre
0 / 277
  Red Flag
Bandera Roja
(intervened)
BR Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-Chavismo
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Left-wing to far-left
0 / 277
  Popular Political Unity 89
Unidad Política Popular 89
UPP 89 Chavismo Left-wing Reinaldo Quijada
0 / 277
  National Opinion
Opinión Nacional
OPINA Conservatism
Liberalism
Liberal conservatism
Federalism
Republicanism
Right-wing José Antonio Araújo
0 / 277
  National Integrity Movement-Unity
Movimiento de Integridad Nacional-Unidad
(intervened)
MIN-Unidad Patriotism
Meritocracy
Pragmatism
Social conservatism
Economic liberalism
Agrarianism
Right-wing
0 / 277
Social Progress
Progreso Social
PS
0 / 277
Democratic Center Party
Partido Centro Democrático
PCD Centre
0 / 277
  Networks Party
Partido Redes
REDES Socialism
Libertarian socialism
Chavismo
Bolivarianism
Pluralism
Left-wing to far-left Juan Barreto
0 / 277
Indigenous Peoples Movement
Movimiento de los Pueblos Indígenas
MOPIVE Indigenismo Big tent
0 / 277
Centre Alliance
Alianza Centro
AC Centre
0 / 277
Building Country
Construyendo País
CP
0 / 277
  Go Ahead
Va Pa´lante
VPL
0 / 277

Electoral results edit

Parliamentary elections edit

Election Votes % Seats +/– Rank Government
2020 1,101,816 17.68
18 / 277
  91[a]   2nd[a] Opposition
  1. ^ a b Compared to the results of the MUD in 2015

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Antolínez, Héctor (26 July 2023). "Coalición Vamos marca el fin de la Alianza Democrática como proyecto electoral". Crónica Uno. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Cerró el plazo para postular candidatos para el #6D | 800Noticias". 800noticias.com. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Alianza Democrática formalizó inscripción de candidatos – Diario La Calle" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2020.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Los partidos de los ex candidatos presidenciales Javier Bertucci y Henri Falcón se presentarán en las elecciones parlamentarias en Venezuela". infobae (in European Spanish). 9 September 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  5. ^ "TSJ suspende directiva de AD y le entrega el partido a Bernabé Gutiérrez". Crónica Uno (in Spanish). 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  6. ^ Hern, Valery. "Alianza Democrática formalizó inscripción de candidatos para parlamentarias del 6D | EL EVANGELIO CAMBIA" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  7. ^ Globovision. "Javier Bertucci: Participando hacemos mucho más". Globovisión. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  8. ^ "Unión Radio". unionradio.net. Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  9. ^ "6-D | Bertucci: "la única vía es la participación electoral"". Diario Nuevo Día – Noticias en Falcón (in Spanish). 2020-09-08. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  10. ^ "Cinco partidos de oposición presentan su "Alianza Democrática" de cara a las parlamentarias del 6-D". El Universal (in Spanish). 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  11. ^ ""Alianza Democrática" insta a opositores a conformar listas únicas para el 6D". TalCual (in Spanish). 2020-09-08. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  12. ^ "Partidos que enfrentarán al PSUV no unificaron candidaturas para el 6-D". Crónica Uno (in Spanish). 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  13. ^ "Resultados Parlamentarias 2020".

External links edit

  • El Cambio website
  • Acción Democrática website
  • Copei website
  • Cambiemos website
  • Avanzada Progresista website