- United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Infobox Political_party
name_english = United Socialist Party of Venezuela
name_native = Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela
colorcode = red
leader =Hugo Chávez
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chairperson =
spokesperson =Willian Lara
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foundation = April,2008
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membership_year=2007
membership = 5.8 million [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2569]
ideology =Socialism ,Marxism-Leninism Bolivarianism
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colors =red Fact|date=May 2008
website = [http://www.psuv.org.ve/ psuv.org.ve]
footnotes = SeePolitics of Venezuela for more information.The United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( _es. Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a left wing political party inVenezuela that is in the process of being founded. [ [http://english.eluniversal.com/2006/12/19/en_pol_art_19A816669.shtml Daily News - eluniversal.com ] ] It was initiated by Venezuelan presidentHugo Chávez after he won the Venezuelan presidential election of 2006 in order to merge all parties which support theBolivarian Revolution . [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6192105.stm BBC NEWS | Americas | Venezuela head seeks party merger ] ]On
18 December 2006 , the Minister of Communication and InformationWillian Lara announced the preparation of a letter addressed to the National Electoral Council, regarding the proposal to formally disband theFifth Republic Movement . Chávez has stressed the need for a single, unitedBolivarian party. [ [http://english.eluniversal.com/2006/12/18/en_pol_art_18A816337.shtml Daily News - eluniversal.com ] ]The party held its founding congress in early 2008.Fact|date=June 2008
Participants
Of the twenty-four parties which supported Chávez in the 2006 presidential election, eleven are in the process of joining PSUV. On
March 7 2007 , Chávez presented a phased plan for founding the new party until November 2007. [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2234]For Social Democracy ,Fatherland for All and theCommunist Party of Venezuela have stated they will wait until PSUV has been founded and decide their membership in the new party based on its program. [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2232] OnMarch 18 2007 , Chávez declared in his programmeAló Presidente that he had "opened the doors for Podemos, Patria Para Todos, and the Venezuelan Communist Party so that if they want to go away, they may do so and leave us in peace". He declared that in his opinion those parties are almost in the opposition and added that they had to choose well the way to go, "in silence, hugging us or throwing stones". [http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/03/19/pol_art_los-que-se-quieran_216609.shtml] Patria Para Todos decided at its annual congress fromApril 10 toApril 11 not to dissolve, while re-affirming its support for Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution. [http://www.ppt.org.ve/20070411.php]Activities of PSUV
On
24 March 2007 , the first 2,000 party members took their oaths on a party ceremony. 10,000 more members were sworn in on19 April 2007 , and the party held its first formal meeting on15 August 2007 . [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3795§ionid=3510207]References
External links
* [http://www.partidosocialistaunidodevenezuela.com/psuv/venezuela/hugo/chavez/ News about the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez]
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