The Popular Revolutionary Alternative (, APR) is a Venezuelan Chavista political coalition made up of socialist and leftist parties critical of the administration of Nicolás Maduro.
The coalition was created in the leadup to the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election to bring together the political forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution, as begun by Hugo Chávez, and who also seek to demarcate themselves from governmental policy.
History
Background The emergence of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative as a coalition coincided with a series of interventions by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice towards some of the left-wing parties in the Great Patriotic Pole, such as Tupamaro and Patria Para Todos. The Communist Party of Venezuela also denounced surveillance by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service on their headquarters in Puerto Cabello.
The parties that have formed the APR claim that the difficulties the Venezuelan economy is going through are due to the structural crisis of capitalism, intensified by the "economic asphyxiation of US imperialism." The coalition denounces high costs of living, low salaries, and the rampant speculation & corruption in Venezuela currently, as well as opposing the adoption of unpopular measures by the "social-democratic" government that leads the PSUV. The APR stands for a "revolutionary way out" of the crisis in the country.
2020 parliamentary elections Within the framework of the 2020 elections to the National Assembly, the Popular Revolutionary Alternative will be using the electoral ticket of the Communist Party of Venezuela, the only ticket which the government has authorized to run legally.
During the campaign, various candidates and leaders of the APR have been subject to arrests and death threats.
Coalition parties Political Party Acronym (Spanish) Founded in Political tendencyCommunist Party of Venezuela (section) PCV 1931 Communism, Marxism–Leninism Fatherland for All (section) PPT 1997 Libertarian socialism Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (section) MRT 1998 Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Guevarism Revolutionary Party of Labour PRT 2012 Communism, Marxism–Leninism Lucha de Clases (RevolutionaryCommunists International) LdC 2010 Communism, Trotskyism Somos Lina MovementSL 2018 Anti-imperialism Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200MBR-200 1982 Left-wing nationalism IU 2002 Socialism Compromiso País COMPA Anti-oligarchy Red Autónoma de Comuneros RAC 2009Communalism
See also Communist Party of Venezuela Bolivarian Revolution Great Patriotic Pole
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