The Democratic Alliance (, AD) is a parliamentary group and a former political coalition created to face the government of Nicolás Maduro in the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election and grouped in the National Assembly. It is made up of Hope for Change, Cambiemos and Progressive Advance parties of the predecessor coalition Agreement for Change, in addition to the intervened parties Democratic Action and Copei, and the later incorporated Primero Venezuela, United Venezuela, Ecological Movement, Unidad Vision Venezuela, Country Commitment and the also intervened Popular Will.
AD was the successor coalition of the Agreement for Change, and later also of the United Venezuela Alliance.
History
Creation and origin
On 4 September 2020, representatives of five political parties of the Venezuelan opposition met with the CNE to formalize the nominations of candidates for the questioned parliamentary elections that will be held on 6 December 2020. The coalition was called the Democratic Alliance, whose main characteristic is that the directives of the main opposition parties (AD, VP, COPEI) were changed via the Supreme Court, after a document was introduced in the judicial body requesting the creation of a new ad-hoc board of directors and thus their electoral cards will be enabled to participate in the elections.
On 8 September 2020, in a ceremony held with the presence of national and international media, Javier Bertucci, president of the El Cambio party, announced a new unit called "Democratic Alliance" to participate in the controversial 2020 parliamentary elections. The alliance had the purpose of achieving the departure of the Maduro government with an "electoral, democratic and constitutional" route, through active participation in the upcoming elections (governors and mayors), and then call a recall referendum.
Political actions Juan Carlos Alvarado, general secretary of Copei, said that the alliance nominated candidates in the 2020 parliamentary election in the 24 state lists and 87 electoral districts of the country. He mentioned that said alliance has a structure to defend the vote in the 14,509 voting centers and the more than 35,000 polling stations enabled for the elections to be held on 6 December 2020.
The Ecological Movement joined the Democratic Alliance in some states such as Amazonas, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Lara, Mérida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Táchira, Trujillo, Vargas and Zulia.
On December 9, the CNE published on its official website the bulletin that awards the 274 deputies by voting National, Regional and Nominal Lists. The coalition obtained the majority of the opposition votes, obtaining 1,169,363, representing 18.76% of the total participation.
Subsequently, the dissident parties of Primero Venezuela of the deputies Luis Parra and José Brito, United Venezuela of the alternate deputy Chaim Bucarán and the judicially intervened party Popular Will of the also alternate José Gregorio Noriega were incorporated.
Composition The Alliance was made up of 27 political parties, mentioned below: PartyAbbr. Ideology Position Leader National Assembly Democratic ActionAcción Democrática (intervened) AD Centre-left José Bernabé Gutiérrez Hope for Change Esperanza por El Cambio El Cambio Centre Javier Bertucci COPEIComité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente(intervened) COPEI Centre to centre-right Juan Carlos Alvarado Progressive AdvanceAvanzada Progresista AP Centre-left Henri Falcon Venezuela FirstPrimero Venezuela PV Centre-left Luis Parra Let's Change - Citizen's MovementCambiemos Movimiento Ciudadano CMC Centre-left Timoteo Zambrano Popular WillVoluntad Popular (intervened)VP Centre to centre-left José Gregorio Noriega United VenezuelaVenezuela Unida VU Centre-left Ecological Movement of VenezuelaMovimiento Ecológico de Venezuela (intervened) MOVEV Centre to centre-left Alejandro Aguilera Unity Vision VenezuelaUnidad Visión Venezuela UVV Centre Omar Ávila Country CommitmentCompromiso País COMPA Centre to centre-left Olga Morey Movement for SocialismMovimiento al Socialismo MAS Centre-left to left-wing Felipe Mujica Republican MovementMovimiento Republicano (intervened) MR Centre ProcitizensProciudadanos PRO Centre-right Leocenis GarcíaSolutions for VenezuelaSoluciones para Venezuela SPV Centre-left Claudio Fermín New Vision for my Country Nueva Visión para mi País (intervened) NUVIPAChristian nationalism Centre Red FlagBandera Roja (intervened) BR Left-wing to far-left Popular Political Unity 89Unidad Política Popular 89 UPP 89 Left-wing Reinaldo Quijada National OpinionOpinión Nacional OPINA Right-wing José Antonio Araújo National Integrity Movement-UnityMovimiento de Integridad Nacional-Unidad (intervened) MIN-Unidad Right-wing Social ProgressProgreso Social PS Nationalism Centre Democratic Center PartyPartido Centro Democrático PCD Christian humanism Centre Networks PartyPartido Redes REDES Left-wing to far-left Juan BarretoIndigenous Peoples MovementMovimiento de los Pueblos Indígenas MOPIVE Big tent Centre AllianceAlianza Centro AC Moderate ChavismoCentre Building CountryConstruyendo País CP Big tent Go AheadVa Pa´lante VPL Progressivism Centre-left
Electoral results
Parliamentary elections
Election Votes % Seats +/– Rank Government20201,101,81617.68 91 2nd2025361,7696.02 7 2nd
See also Operación Alacrán Interventions of political parties in Venezuela
References
External links El Cambio website Acción Democrática website Copei website Cambiemos website Avanzada Progresista website