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For Social Democracy Por la Democracia Social
Abbreviation	PODEMOS
Leader	Didalco Bolívar
Founded	2002; 23 years ago (2002)
Split from	Movement for Socialism
Headquarters	Caracas
Ideology	Social democracy Democratic socialism
Political position	Centre-left toleft-wing
National affiliation	Unitary Platform
Regional affiliation	COPPPAL
Seats in theLatin American Parliament	0 / 12
Seats in theNational Assembly	4 / 277
Governors of States of Venezuela	0 / 23
Mayors	0 / 337
Website
https://twitter.com/PartidoPODEMOS
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For Social Democracy (Spanish:Por la Democracia Social),abbr.PODEMOS, (Spanish:We can) is apolitical party inVenezuela. In the2005 legislative elections the party won 15 out of 165 seats in theNational Assembly.

The party is led byIsmael García andDidalco Bolívar. It once supported presidentHugo Chávez, but refused to join the newUnited Socialist Party (PSUV) created by the president in 2007, and opposed Chávez's proposals in the2007 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 the right."^[1]

PODEMOS is a member ofCOPPPAL,^[2] and used to be a consultative member ofSocialist International.^[3]

In 2012, the party split and the anti-Chávez faction supporting Ismael García joined the anti-Chávez faction ofFatherland for All, creatingProgressive Advance, a centre-left party in opposition to thegovernment. The leadership of PODEMOS was then taken by the pro-Chávez Didalco Bolívar. Under Bolívar's leadership, the party left theDemocratic Unity Roundtable and joined the PSUV-ledGreat Patriotic Pole.

The party's youth wing is called the Unión de Jovenes Podemos.

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