Voluntad Popular

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Voluntad Popular
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Party leader Leopoldo López (declared deposed by the regime)
founding December 5, 2009
Headquarters Centro Plaza, Caracas
Alignment center
Colours) orange
Parliament seats
14/165
International connections Socialist International
Website www.voluntadpopular.com

Voluntad Popular (abbreviation: VP ; German  Volkswille ) is a social democratic party in Venezuela . VP was founded in December 2009 by Leopoldo López and recognized by the National Electoral Commission on January 14, 2011. The party is in opposition to the socialist government of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro and belongs to the electoral alliance Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD).

Prior to founding VP of party chairman and López-ups who had right-wing liberal party Primero Justicia consulted and had been from 2000 to 2008 Mayor of Chacao de Caracas. In 2008 he lost his right to vote on charges of misappropriating public funds, which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled to be illegal.

López was one of the most prominent leaders of the opposition mass protests of 2014 . He was arrested in February 2014 on charges of incitement to violence and membership of a criminal organization and sentenced to over 13 years in prison in September 2015 for inciting violence and conspiracy. He is referred to as a political prisoner by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch .

In the parliamentary elections in December 2015 , the party won 14 of the 165 seats in the National Assembly as part of the MUD alliance . It is thus the fourth strongest force within the opposition bloc. Freddy Guevara of the VP has been First Vice-President of the National Assembly since January 2017 .

Since December 2014 Voluntad Popular has been a full member of the Socialist International .

After the opposition parties had decided not to take part in the parliamentary elections in Venezuela in 2020 , as these would not be held as a free election, the Venezuelan Supreme Court, loyal to the regime, removed the party's executive committee and appointed José Gregorio Noriega , who was considered close to the government, as the new party chairman. Noriega was expelled from the party in 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gavin O'Toole: Politics Latin America. 3rd edition, Routledge, New York / Abingdon (Oxon) 2018.
  2. ^ Virginia López, Tom Phillips: Juan Guaidó. Venezuela has chance to leave chaos behind. In: The Guardian (online), January 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ Simon Romero, María Eugenia Díaz: A Bolívar Ready to Fight Against the Bolivarian State. In: The New York Times , October 21, 2011.
  4. ^ Daniel Hellinger: Global Security Watch - Venezuela. Praeger, Santa Barbara (CA) 2012, p. 188.
  5. ↑ Quiénes somos site of Popular Will. Retrieved November 15, 2015. (Spanish)
  6. ^ Opposition leader sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine (Online), September 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ Integración de la Asamblea Nacional por partido político. ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eluniversal.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: El Universal (Online), December 10, 2015.
  8. ^ Meeting of the SI Council at the United Nations in Geneva . Website of the Socialist International. December 12-13, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2015. (English)
  9. ^ Supreme Court replaces opposition party board; in: SPON from July 8, 2020, online