Democratic Unity Roundtable
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The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Spanish: Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) was a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election.[5] A previous opposition umbrella group, the Coordinadora Democrática, had collapsed after the failure of the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum.
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Democratic Unity Roundtable Mesa de la Unidad Democrática | |
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Founded | 23 January 2008; 16 years ago (2008-01-23) |
Dissolved | 21 April 2021; 3 years ago (2021-04-21)[citation needed] |
Succeeded by | Unitary Platform |
Ideology | Liberal democracy Anti-Chavism[1] Factions: Christian democracy Social democracy[2] Social liberalism[3] Progressivism Economic liberalism |
Political position | Centre[A][4] |
Colors | (Venezuelan national colors) Blue (customary) |
Seats in the National Assembly | 3 / 277
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Seats in the Latin American Parliament | 6 / 12
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Seats in the Mercosur Parliament | 12 / 23
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Governors | 2 / 23
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Mayor | 0 / 335
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Website | |
unidadvenezuela.org | |
^ A: MUD includes a few centre-left and centre-right parties as well. |
The coalition was made of primarily centrist and centre-left parties.[4][failed verification] The main components were Democratic Action and Copei, the two parties who dominated Venezuelan politics from 1959 to 1999. Since the 2013 Venezuelan presidential election, Justice First became the largest opposition party, and Henrique Capriles Radonski became the leader of the opposition.
In the 2015 parliamentary election, the coalition became the largest group in the National Assembly with 112 out of 167 (a supermajority), ending sixteen years of PSUV rule of the country's unicameral parliament. In the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, the MUD boycotted the election, and as the National Assembly itself lost most of its power, PSUV retook its parliamentary majority.[6]
In July 2018, Democratic Action, one of the largest and most distinguished parties of the MUD, said they will leave the coalition.[7]