Partido Comunista de Venezuela

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Partido Comunista de Venezuela
Secretary General Óscar Figuera
founding March 5, 1931
Headquarters Caracas
newspaper Tribuna Popular
Alignment Communism , Marxism-Leninism
Colours) Red Yellow
Parliament seats 3
Website prensapcv.wordpress.com

The Partido Comunista de Venezuela (abbreviation: PCV ; German  Communist Party of Venezuela ) is the party with the longest left political tradition in Venezuela .

history

It was founded as an underground movement on March 5, 1931 by Juan Bautista Fuenmayor, Pío Tamayo, Rodolfo Quintero and other revolutionaries .

The party maintained a Marxist-Leninist line and followed the guidelines of the CPSU from Moscow until the end of the Soviet Union in 1990. In 1936 it merged with other left-wing parties to form the Partido Democrático Nacional ( PDN , German Democratic National Party ) To leave it again year later.

The PCV was only able to establish itself as an official party in 1945 (still under the chairmanship of Juan Bautista Fuenmayor), but was banned again in 1950 during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez . The PCV and AD were involved to a large extent in the fall of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958 . Even after the fall, the PCV remained underground, as the AD, together with the COPEI, shared power in the Punto-Fijo Agreement (and the PCV and other parties excluded from it).

It then started a guerrilla war , in which, however, many of its members either killed or disaffected by the guerrilla war joined other parties.

During the first government of Rafael Caldera in 1970, the PCV was legalized again through a general amnesty, but received only a low number of votes with less than one percent in subsequent presidential elections (the elections were always won by the AD or the COPEI). The use of a red rooster as a mascot also dates from this period. This represents her presidential candidate Gustavo Machado. The PCV is considered to be the “godfather” of other left-wing groups in Venezuela in the 20th century . For example, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and the La Causa Radical (LCR) split off (both in 1971).

Before the 1993 elections, the political situation in Venezuela changed radically, with the traditional parties clearly losing votes in opinion polls. The PCV, which was formerly close to the Soviet Union, decided to support the Christian Democrats - and therefore traditionally more right-wing - Rafael Caldera (who, however, had founded the center-left alliance Convergencia Democrática ( CD , German Democratic Convergence ) for these elections ); Caldera won those elections and became President of Venezuela for the second time.

In 1998 she supported the presidential candidate Hugo Chávez in the electoral platform Polo Patriótico (German Patriotic Pole ), who also clearly won the elections. This support continues to this day and also applies to his reform program to “build socialism of the 21st century ”. In the 2006 presidential election the PCV received 2.9 percent of the vote. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the PCV won 8 of the 167 seats in parliament. On March 10, 2013 the PCV supported on their XII. National conference nominated Nicolás Maduro as a presidential candidate.

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  1. ↑ During the dictatorship of General Juan Vicente Gómez
  2. ↑ based on the model of the Partido Revolucionario Venezolano (German: Revolutionary Party of Venezuelas ) founded by Venezuelans in exile .
  3. ↑ 1989 the Caracazo , 1992 two coup attempts (among others by Hugo Chávez )
  4. ↑ El PCV apoya la candidatura presidencial de Nicolás Maduro . El Economista, March 10, 2013.