People's Electoral Movement (Venezuela)

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People's Electoral Movement Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo
Founder	Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa
Founded	1967
Dissolved	2007
Split from	Democratic Action
Merged into	PSUV
Ideology	Socialism Left-wing nationalism National liberation
Political position	Left-wing
Regional affiliation	COPPPAL
Politics of Venezuela Political parties Elections

The People's Electoral Movement (Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo, MEP) was a

• 1968 election: Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa
  (19.34%)
• 1973 election: Jesús Ángel Paz Galarraga [es
  ] (5.07%)
• 1978 election: Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa
  (1.12%)
• 1983 election: José Vicente Rangel
  (3.34%)
• 1988 election: Edmundo Chirinos
  (0.79%)
• 1993 election: Rafael Caldera
  (30.5%)
• 1998 election: Hugo Chávez (56.2%)
• 2000 election: Hugo Chávez
  (59.8%)
• 2006 election: Hugo Chávez (62.8%)

People's Electoral Movement

People's Electoral Movement- The Socialist Party of Venezuela (MEP) is a leftist political party that was founded on 10 December 1967. It was founded on the doctrines of socialist democracy, revolution, and nationalism. Its founders include Luis Beltran Prieto Figueroa, Jesús Ángel Paz Galárraga and Salom Mesa. In 2021, it had four representatives in the National Assembly- three deputies and an alternate. The three deputies are Gilberto Giménez, Ignacio Buznego, and Candelario Briceño. The alternate is Leticia Rangel.

Ideology

The party was born as a left wing from the Venezuelan

The political basis and ideologies of the party were declared by its founder, Luis Beltrán Preito Figueroa, in his thesis Del Tradicionalismo a la modernidad. This thesis is also known as Libro Morado.

The fundamental values of the MEP are:

• National Liberation- The MEP is an instrument to eradicate imperialist exploitation and oligarchy.
• Socialist Democracy- The MEP works to overcome contradictions and differences of the nation's classes and to further develop the human personality. Furthermore, Preito Figueroa expressed that socialist democracy means giving power to the working class as well as both manual and intellectual workers, who exercise control over the state and its means of production.

With regards to the economic aspect, Prieto Figueroa defended that social property should not be regulated in a bureaucratic or uniform matter. With this, it favored the nationalization of large companies, the creation of some self-managed units in medium and small companies, and an exception of a few small companies in private control for an indefinite amount of time. At the same time, he claimed that socialist democracy implied that they would create a plan for the economy to benefit the common good, and distribute wealth with regards to the work each individual completes. Similarly, Prieto Figueroa states that steps towards socialization are only taken when the state is under heavy influence by the power of the working class.

History

Origen

The MEP was born from a leftist sector of

It is important to note that Nicolás Maduro García, the father of Nicolás Maduro Muros (Venezuela's current president), was one of its founders.

References

• Kornblith, Levine, Miriam, Daniel (June 1993). "Venezuela: The Life and Times of the Party System" (PDF). Georgetown EDU. Retrieved 29 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354068898004004005

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