For Social Democracy (Spanish: Por la Democracia Social ), abbr. PODEMOS , (Spanish: We can ) is a political party in Venezuela . In the 2005 legislative elections the party won 15 out of 165 seats in the National Assembly .
4-461: The party is led by Ismael García and Didalco Bolívar . It once supported president Hugo Chávez , but refused to join the new United Socialist Party (PSUV) created by the president in 2007, and opposed Chávez's proposals in the 2007 constitutional referendum . Since then, it broke with Chávez and became the only opposition voice in the Parliament. Hugo Chávez accused García of "raising the flags of
8-614: The party left the Democratic Unity Roundtable and joined the PSUV-led Great Patriotic Pole . The party's youth wing is called the Unión de Jovenes Podemos. This article about a Venezuelan political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ismael Garc%C3%ADa Ismael García (born in 1954) is a Venezuelan politician. He was the leader of PODEMOS , a socialist party which won
12-441: The right." PODEMOS is a member of COPPPAL , and used to be a consultative member of Socialist International . In 2012, the party split and the anti-Chávez faction supporting Ismael García joined the anti-Chávez faction of Fatherland for All , creating Progressive Advance , a centre-left party in opposition to the government . The leadership of PODEMOS was then taken by the pro-Chávez Didalco Bolívar. Under Bolívar's leadership,
16-676: The second most seats in the National Assembly of Venezuela in the 2005 election . Although the party formerly supported the program of President Hugo Chávez , it broke decisively with the ruling party over the 2007 constitutional referendum , and García was then heavily criticized by Chávez. In 2012, following a decision by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice that handed over the party's leadership to Didalco Bolívar , Garcia left PODEMOS and founded Progressive Advance with Henri Falcón . However, in 2014, Garcia left that party to become
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