Democratic Alliance (Venezuela)

Former political coalition in Venezuela

Democratic Alliance

Alianza Democrática

Abbreviation| AD
Leaders| Javier Bertucci (El Cambio)
José Bernabé Gutiérrez (AD)
Juan Carlos Alvarado (Copei)
Timoteo Zambrano (CMC)
Henri Falcón (AP)
Luis Parra (PV)
Founded| 4 September 2020 (2020-09-04)
2025 (second)
Dissolved| August 2023 (2023-08)[1]
16 June 2025 (2025-06-16) (second)[2]
Split from| Democratic Unity Roundtable
Preceded by| Agreement for Change
Ideology| Liberal democracy
Factions:
Christian democracy
Social democracy
Social liberalism
Progressivism
Economic liberalism
Political position| Big tent
Slogan| La Unidad Superior por Venezuela
('The Superior Unity for Venezuela')
Website
Twitter page

* Politics of Venezuela
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* Elections

The Democratic Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Democrática, AD) was a political coalition created to face the government of Nicolás Maduro in the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election and grouped in the National Assembly. It is made up of Hope for Change, Cambiemos and Progressive Advance parties of the predecessor coalition Agreement for Change, in addition to the intervened parties Democratic Action and Copei, and the later incorporated Primero Venezuela, United Venezuela, Ecological Movement, Unidad Vision Venezuela, Country Commitment and the also intervened Popular Will.[3][4]

AD was the successor coalition of the Agreement for Change, and later also of the United Venezuela Alliance.

## History

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### Creation and origin

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See also: Interventions of political parties in Venezuela

On 4 September 2020, representatives of five political parties of the Venezuelan opposition met with the CNE to formalize the nominations of candidates for the questioned parliamentary elections that will be held on 6 December 2020.[5] The coalition was called the Democratic Alliance, whose main characteristic is that the directives of the main opposition parties (AD, VP, COPEI) were changed via the Supreme Court, after a document was introduced in the judicial body requesting the creation of a new ad-hoc board of directors and thus their electoral cards will be enabled to participate in the elections.[6][7]

On 8 September 2020, in a ceremony held with the presence of national and international media, Javier Bertucci, president of the El Cambio party, announced a new unit called "Democratic Alliance" to participate in the controversial 2020 parliamentary elections.[8] The alliance had the purpose of achieving the departure of the Maduro government with an "electoral, democratic and constitutional" route, through active participation in the upcoming elections (governors and mayors), and then call a recall referendum.[9][10]

### Political actions

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Juan Carlos Alvarado, general secretary of Copei, said that the alliance nominated candidates in the 2020 parliamentary election in the 24 state lists and 87 electoral districts of the country.[11] He mentioned that said alliance has a structure to defend the vote in the 14,509 voting centers and the more than 35,000 polling stations enabled for the elections to be held on 6 December 2020.[12]

The Ecological Movement joined the Democratic Alliance in some states such as Amazonas, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Lara, Mérida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Táchira, Trujillo, Vargas and Zulia.[13]

On December 9, the CNE published on its official website the bulletin that awards the 274 deputies by voting National, Regional and Nominal Lists. The coalition obtained the majority of the opposition votes, obtaining 1,169,363, representing 18.76% of the total participation.[14]

Subsequently, the dissident parties of Primero Venezuela of the deputies Luis Parra and José Brito, United Venezuela of the alternate deputy Chaim Bucarán and the judicially intervened party Popular Will of the also alternate José Gregorio Noriega were incorporated.

## Composition

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The Alliance was made up of 27 political parties, mentioned below:

Party  | Abbr.  | Ideology  | Position  | Leader  | National Assembly

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|  | Democratic Action
Acción Democrática
(intervened) | AD | Social democracy
Venezuelan nationalism | Centre-left | José Bernabé Gutiérrez |

8 / 277

|  | Hope for Change
Esperanza por El Cambio | El Cambio | Christian democracy | Centre | Javier Bertucci |

4 / 277

|  | COPEI
Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente
(intervened) | COPEI | Social conservatism
Christian democracy
Economic liberalism | Centre to centre-right | Juan Carlos Alvarado |

3 / 277

|  | Progressive Advance
Avanzada Progresista | AP | Social democracy
Progressivism | Centre-left | Henri Falcon |

2 / 277

|  | Venezuela First
Primero Venezuela | PV | Humanism | Centre-left | Luis Parra |

2 / 277

|  | Let's Change - Citizen's Movement
Cambiemos Movimiento Ciudadano | CMC | Pluralism
Progressivism
Feminism | Centre-left | Timoteo Zambrano |

1 / 277

|  | Popular Will
Voluntad Popular
(intervened) | VP |

* Social democracy
* Progressivism
* Economic liberalism

| Centre to centre-left | José Gregorio Noriega |

0 / 277

|  | United Venezuela
Venezuela Unida | VU | Social democracy | Centre-left |  |

0 / 277

|  | Ecological Movement of Venezuela
Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela
(intervened) | MOVEV | Green politics
Environmentalism | Centre to centre-left | Alejandro Aguilera |

0 / 277

|  | Unity Vision Venezuela
Unidad Visión Venezuela | UVV | Liberalism
Modern liberalism | Centre | Omar Ávila |

0 / 277

|  | Country Commitment
Compromiso País | COMPA | Social democracy
Liberal humanism | Centre to centre-left | Olga Morey |

0 / 277

|  | Movement for Socialism
Movimiento al Socialismo | MAS | Democratic socialism
Market socialism
Social democracy
Progressivism | Centre-left to left-wing | Felipe Mujica |

0 / 277

|  | Republican Movement
Movimiento Republicano
(intervened) | MR | Republicanism | Centre |  |

0 / 277

|  | Procitizens
Prociudadanos | PRO | Liberalism | Centre-right | Leocenis García |

0 / 277

|  | Solutions for Venezuela
Soluciones para Venezuela | SPV | Social democracy
Pluralism
Third way
Patriotism
Populism | Centre-left | Claudio Fermín |

0 / 277

|  | New Vision for my Country
Nueva Visión para mi País
(intervened) | NUVIPA | Christian nationalism | Centre |  |

0 / 277

|  | Red Flag
Bandera Roja
(intervened) | BR | Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-Chavismo
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism | Left-wing to far-left |  |

0 / 277

|  | Popular Political Unity 89
Unidad Política Popular 89 | UPP 89 | Chavismo | Left-wing | Reinaldo Quijada |

0 / 277

|  | National Opinion
Opinión Nacional | OPINA | Conservatism
Liberalism
Liberal conservatism
Federalism
Republicanism | Right-wing | José Antonio Araújo |

0 / 277

|  | National Integrity Movement-Unity
Movimiento de Integridad Nacional-Unidad
(intervened) | MIN-Unidad | Patriotism
Meritocracy
Pragmatism
Social conservatism
Economic liberalism
Agrarianism | Right-wing |  |

0 / 277

|  | Social Progress
Progreso Social | PS | Nationalism | Centre |  |

0 / 277

|  | Democratic Center Party
Partido Centro Democrático | PCD | Christian humanism | Centre |  |

0 / 277

|  | Networks Party
Partido Redes | REDES | Socialism
Libertarian socialism
Chavismo
Bolivarianism
Pluralism | Left-wing to far-left | Juan Barreto |

0 / 277

|  | Indigenous Peoples Movement
Movimiento de los Pueblos Indígenas  | MOPIVE | Indigenismo | Big tent |  |

0 / 277

|  | Centre Alliance
Alianza Centro | AC | Moderate Chavismo | Centre |  |

0 / 277

|  | Building Country
Construyendo País | CP | Big tent |  |  |

0 / 277

|  | Go Ahead
Va Pa´lante | VPL | Progressivism | Centre-left |  |

0 / 277

## Electoral results

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### Parliamentary elections

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Election  | Votes  | %  | Seats  | +/–  | Rank  | Government

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2020 | 1,101,816  | 17.68  |

18 / 277

|  91[a] |  2nd[a] | Opposition

1. ^ a b Compared to the results of the MUD in 2015

## See also

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* Operación Alacrán
* Interventions of political parties in Venezuela

## References

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1. ^ Antolínez, Héctor (26 July 2023). "Coalición Vamos marca el fin de la Alianza Democrática como proyecto electoral". Crónica Uno. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
2. ^ https://www.elimpulso.com/2025/06/18/partidos-opositores-disuelven-la-alianza-democratica-18jun/
3. ^ "Cerró el plazo para postular candidatos para el #6D". 800Noticias. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
4. ^ "Alianza Democrática formalizó inscripción de candidatos – Diario La Calle" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2020.[permanent dead link]
5. ^ "Los partidos de los ex candidatos presidenciales Javier Bertucci y Henri Falcón se presentarán en las elecciones parlamentarias en Venezuela". infobae (in European Spanish). 9 September 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
6. ^ "TSJ suspende directiva de AD y le entrega el partido a Bernabé Gutiérrez". Crónica Uno (in Spanish). 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
7. ^ Hern, Valery. "Alianza Democrática formalizó inscripción de candidatos para parlamentarias del 6D". EL EVANGELIO CAMBIA (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
8. ^ "Javier Bertucci: Participando hacemos mucho más". Globovisión. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
9. ^ "Unión Radio". unionradio.net. Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
10. ^ "6-D | Bertucci: "la única vía es la participación electoral"". Diario Nuevo Día (in Spanish). 2020-09-08. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
11. ^ "Cinco partidos de oposición presentan su "Alianza Democrática" de cara a las parlamentarias del 6-D". El Universal (in Spanish). 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
12. ^ ""Alianza Democrática" insta a opositores a conformar listas únicas para el 6D". TalCual (in Spanish). 2020-09-08. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
13. ^ "Partidos que enfrentarán al PSUV no unificaron candidaturas para el 6-D". Crónica Uno (in Spanish). 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
14. ^ "Resultados Parlamentarias 2020".

## External links

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* El Cambio website
* Acción Democrática website
* Copei website
* Cambiemos website
* Avanzada Progresista website

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