United Socialist Party of Venezuela
United Socialist Party of Venezuela Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela | |
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| President | Nicolás Maduro |
| Vice President | Diosdado Cabello |
| Founder | Hugo Chávez |
| Founded | 24 March 2007 |
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| Headquarters | Maripérez, Caracas |
| Newspaper | Cuatro F |
| Youth wing | JPSUV |
| Paramilitary groups | Colectivos, Units of Battle Hugo Chávez |
| Membership (2024) | 4,240,032 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation | Great Patriotic Pole |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL São Paulo Forum |
| International affiliation | Axis of Resistance World Anti-Imperialist Platform For the Freedom of Nations! |
| Colors | Red |
| Anthem | "La Hora del Pueblo" ('People's Hour') |
| Seats in the National Assembly | 219 / 277 |
| Seats in the Latin American Parliament | 4 / 12 |
| Governors | 19 / 23 |
| Mayors | 303 / 335 |
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The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV, [peˈsuβ, peˈsuβe]) is a socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since 2007. It was formed from a merger of some of the political and social forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution led by President Hugo Chávez.
At the 2015 parliamentary election, PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the unicameral legislature's creation in 2000 against the Democratic Unity Roundtable, winning 55 out of the National Assembly's 167 seats. In the 2020 elections however, amid a widespread opposition boycott, they won back a supermajority of the chamber.