Great Patriotic Pole

Great Patriotic Pole
Gran Polo Patriótico
Leader Nicolas Maduro
Founded October 7, 2011 (2011-10-07)
Ideology Socialism of the 21st century
Political position Left-wing to Far-left
Colors                  Orange, blue, red, yellow
Seats in the National Assembly
55 / 167
Governors of States
20 / 23
Mayors
256 / 337
Website
www.granpolopatriotico.org.ve
Politics of Venezuela
Political parties
Elections

The Great Patriotic Pole (Spanish: Gran Polo Patriótico, GPP) is an electoral alliance of Venezuelan political parties created in 2011 to support the re-election of Hugo Chávez in the 2012 presidential election.[1] The organisation, which "formally unites 35,000 Venezuelan movements and collectives",[1] is led by Nicolás Maduros' United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV). Although the coalition shares a name with the "Patriotic Pole" of the 1998 presidential election, the 1998 coalition was one of political parties, and did not include the wide range of social movements and community organisations involved in the GPP. For example, in Mérida state the GPP includes "[m]ovements such as the Tupamaros, the Educational Community Socialist Front, the Frebin (the Bolivarian Front of Researchers and Innovators), the student movement Community Integration, the comrades in the rural workers front- the Campesino Front Ezequiel Zamora, the popular educators network, the Women’s Bicentennial Front, and... Tatuy TV".[1]

A member of the regional promoter team of the GPP in Mérida state said in February 2012:

in order to form the GPP, there are a range of stages to go through. The first stage was the formation of the national promoter team, which was sworn in and approved by the president. It is made up of 153 comrades, spokespeople of different collectives at a national level. That stage ended with the national registration in October 2011. Next came the second stage of regrouping, which are the ongoing meetings of all the collectives registered in the GPP. After that, which is where we are at now, comes the stage of carrying out the popular assemblies of the GPP. These are where the planning, decision making, and debating of all those participating in the GPP takes place. Finally, there is a last stage, which consists of the national congress, or the national popular assembly, with President Chavez. That will be held on 13 April this year and it’s where the new proposals for the national organisation will be discussed and voted on.[1]

Members

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Party name Acronym Founded Ideology Website
Venezuelan Revolutionary Current CRV 2000 Communismcrvnacional.blogspot.com.es
Independents for the National CommunityIPCN 1995 Socialismipcn.es.tl
National Youth Action Unit With Bimba JUAN BIMBA
People's Electoral MovementMEP1967Bolivarianismmep.com.ve
TupamaroMRT1998Marxismtupamaro.org.ve
Revolutionary New WayNCR2008Socialismncr.org.ve
Authentic Renewing Organization ORA1988Christianityoraporvenezuela.org
Communist Party of VenezuelaPCV1931Marxism–Leninismpcv-venezuela.org
United Socialist Party of VenezuelaPSUV2008Socialism of the 21st centurypsuv.org.ve
Fatherland for AllPPT1997Democratic socialismpatriaparatodos.com.ve
Revolutionary Party of LaborPRT2012Syndicalism
Organized Socialist Party in VenezuelaPSOEV2006Democratic socialism www.psoev.org.ve
For Social DemocracyPODEMOS2002Social democracy
Networks of Responses of Communitary Changes REDES2012Socialism
Venezuelan Popular UnityUPV2005Bolivarianism
Republican Bicentennial VanguardVBR2011Bolivarianism

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