PODEMOS is a political party

Political party

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 in Venezuela

Venezuela

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. In the 2005 legislative elections

Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2005

The 2005 Venezuela parliamentary election took place on 4 December 2005. The election sent 167 deputies to the National Assembly of Venezuela, 12 deputies to the Latin American Parliament and 5 deputies to the Andean Parliament...

 the party won 15 out of 165 seats in the National Assembly

National Assembly of Venezuela

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.

The party is led by Ismael García

Ismael García

Ismael García is a Venezuelan politician. He is the leader of For Social Democracy, a socialist party which won the second most seats in the National Assembly of Venezuela in the 2005 election....

 and Didalco Bolívar

Didalco Bolívar

Didalco Bolívar is a Venezuelan politician, and was Governor of Aragua State from 1995 to 2008. His first three election victories were as a representative of the Movement for Socialism. In the 2004 elections he represented For Social Democracy, a party he co-founded in 2003...

. It once supported president Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez

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, but refused to join the new United Socialist Party

United Socialist Party of Venezuela

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 created by the president in 2007, and opposed Chavez's proposals in the 2007 constitutional referendum

Venezuelan constitutional referendum, 2007

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. Since then, it broke with Chavez and became the only opposition voice in the Parliament.
Hugo Chávez has accused García of "raising the flags of the right."