Great Patriotic Pole

Great Patriotic Pole Gran Polo Patriótico
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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
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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. The organisation, which "formally unites 35,000 Venezuelan movements and collectives", 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".

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.

Members

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Party name	Acronym	Founded	Ideology	Website
Venezuelan Revolutionary Current	CRV	2000	Communism	crvnacional.blogspot.com.es
Independents for the National Community	IPCN	1995	Socialism	ipcn.es.tl
National Youth Action Unit With Bimba	JUAN BIMBA
People's Electoral Movement	MEP	1967	Bolivarianism	mep.com.ve
Tupamaro	MRT	1998	Marxism	tupamaro.org.ve
Revolutionary New Way	NCR	2008	Socialism	ncr.org.ve
Authentic Renewing Organization	ORA	1988	Christianity	oraporvenezuela.org
Communist Party of Venezuela	PCV	1931	Marxism–Leninism	pcv-venezuela.org
United Socialist Party of Venezuela	PSUV	2008	Socialism of the 21st century	psuv.org.ve
Fatherland for All	PPT	1997	Democratic socialism	patriaparatodos.com.ve
Revolutionary Party of Labor	PRT	2012	Syndicalism
Organized Socialist Party in Venezuela	PSOEV	2006	Democratic socialism	www.psoev.org.ve
For Social Democracy	PODEMOS	2002	Social democracy	[1]
Networks of Responses of Communitary Changes	REDES	2012	Socialism
Venezuelan Popular Unity	UPV	2005	Bolivarianism
Republican Bicentennial Vanguard	VBR	2011	Bolivarianism

See also

• Democratic Unity Roundtable

External links

• granpolopatriotico.org.ve