Democratic Action (Venezuela)
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Democratic Action (
Since 2000, the party's general secretary has been Henry Ramos Allup. In the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election, AD backed the opposition electoral alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) which managed to grasp a supermajority. AD won 26 constituency representatives out of 167 seats in the unicameral National Assembly, making it the second-largest party in opposition to Nicolás Maduro. In July 2018, AD left the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition coalition.[12]
History
Early years: 1931–1958
The party had a chaotic early history. The Agrupación Revolucionaria de Izquierda (ARDI) was founded in 1931 in Colombia by Rómulo Betancourt and other exile Venezuelans. In 1936 this became the Movimiento de Organización Venezolana (ORVE), which was then dissolved into the Partido Democrático Nacional (PDN). Finally, in 1941, after Isaías Medina Angarita legalized all political parties in Venezuela, Acción Democrática was founded by Betancourt and others. These included Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco, Luis Beltrán Prieto, Juan Oropeza, Luis Lander, Raúl Ramos Jiménez, Medardo Medina Febres, Enrique H. Marín, Rafael Padrón, Fernando Peñalver, Luis Augusto Dubuc, César Hernández, José V. Hernández and Ricardo Montilla. Gallegos was a highly prestigious writer, author of the iconic novel, Doña Bárbara (1929), while Eloy Blanco was a celebrated Venezuelan poet and witty humorist.
After the
Political dominance: 1958–1999
After the
Splits
The
Prieto Figueroa, at the time President of the
An earlier split, in 1960, saw the Revolutionary Left Movement break away from AD. Its subsequent engagement in armed struggle against the government meant the split posed less of a partisan problem compared the later MEP split.[citation needed]
Chávez/Maduro era: 1999–present
The Puntofijo Pact and AD-
During the 2010 and 2015 elections, AD was part of the
Acción Democrática's
Venezuelan Presidents from AD
President | Dates in office | Form of entry | Occupation | |
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Rómulo Betancourt | 1945–1948 | Coup d'état | Politician | |
Rómulo Gallegos | 1948-1948 | Direct elections | Writer / Novelist | |
Rómulo Betancourt | 1959–1964 | Direct elections | Politician | |
Raúl Leoni | 1964–1969 | Direct elections | Lawyer | |
Carlos Andrés Pérez | 1974–1979 | Direct elections | Politician | |
Jaime Lusinchi | 1984–1989 | Direct elections | Physician | |
Carlos Andrés Pérez | 1989–1993 | Direct elections | Politician | |
Ramón José Velásquez | 1993–1994 | Interim president | Historian |
See also
References
- ^ "Rubén Limas (AD-Gutiérrez): Una verdadera unidad nacional debe estar por encima de todo cálculo y de toda mezquindad…". El Informador Venezuela. 6 February 2021.
- ^ "AD de Ramos Allup no pactará con "usurpadores de su tarjeta"". El Universal. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ^ Nacional, El (16 June 2020). "TSJ suspendió directiva de AD y designó una mesa ad hoc presidida por Bernabé Gutiérrez". El Nacional.
- ^ "Is Social Democracy Possible in Latin America?". Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ Lamb, Peter; Docherty, James C. (2006), Historical Dictionary or Socialism (Second ed.), Scarecrow Press, p. 100
- ^ "Partido Acción Democrática. Postulados doctrinarios | Nueva Sociedad". Nueva Sociedad | Democracia y política en América Latina. 1 January 1979. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ Rivas, Darlene (2002), Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela, University of North Carolina Press, p. 108
- ^ Derham, Michael (2010), Politics in Venezuela: Explaining Hugo Chávez, Peter Lang, p. 155
- ^ "¿Qué es Acción Democrática? » Su Definición y Significado [2022]". Concepto de - Definición de (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ "Venepress". Archived from the original on 30 March 2020.
- ^ Buckman, Robert T. (2012), The World Today Series, 2012: Latin America, Stryker-Post, p. 366
- ^ El Nacional(in Spanish). 5 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ a b David L. Swanson, Paolo Mancini (1996), Politics, media, and modern democracy: an international study of innovations in electoral campaigning and their consequences, Greenwood Publishing Group. p244
- ^ "Opposition parties pull out of Venezuela elections". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ "Clashes as new body meets in Venezuela". BBC News. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ Socialist International MEMBER PARTIES of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL, accessed 10 June 2012
- ^ (in Spanish) COPPPAL, Partidos Miembros Archived 5 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 10 June 2012