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The Democratic Unity Roundtable ((スペイン語:Mesa de la Unidad Democrática), MUD) is a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan centrist, centre-left, left-wing and some centre-right political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2010. A previous opposition umbrella group, the ''Coordinadora Democrática'', had collapsed after the failure of the Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004. In the September 2010 election for the National Assembly of Venezuela the MUD won around 47% of the vote nationally, however it only gained 64 seats (of 165) due to changes in population-vote distribution introduced by the incumbent national assembly that had a government party supermajority. In the same elections, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 48% of the vote and 98 seats, while the ''Patria Para Todos'' (PPT) party got only 2 seats.〔()"In Venezuela, the electoral system is set up in a way that favors the majority party as well as rural votes more than urban votes. Chavez counts on support from the over-represented rural areas. The system means that even if the opposition won at least half of the votes, it would actually seat considerably fewer than half of the parliament.".〕 ==Overview== The MUD was formally launched on 23 January 2008 and restructured on 8 June 2009.〔〔 (''Candidatos unitarios ya tienen acuerdo de país para campaña'' ) El Universal. 24 de enero de 2008.〕 In June 2009 MUD included 11 political parties, and was led by Luis Ignacio Planas, President of Copei.〔 By April 2010 the MUD included around 50 political parties, of which 16 were national in scope (the rest regional), and had support from some other social organisations and opinion groups.〔 The main parties included in MUD are Democratic Action and Copei, the two parties who dominated Venezuelan politics from 1959 to 1999; the dissenting left-wing parties Movement for Socialism, Radical Cause and Red Flag Party; and more recently established parties Project Venezuela, A New Era, Justice First and For Social Democracy ("PODEMOS").〔 The Mesa is supported by the Movimiento 2D opposition movement led by ''El Nacional'' editor and proprietor Miguel Henrique Otero. Ramón Guillermo Aveledo〔Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, 9 March 2012, (Opposition Is Winning )〕 served as the MUD's Executive Secretary from March 2009 to July 2014. The journalist Jesús "Chúo" Torrealba became the coalition's current Executive Secretary in September 2014. The coalition struggled to find a clear message in its early days, but has settled on a platform focused on human rights, democracy, and political pluralism. As a coalition of varying ideologies, MUD now rarely makes statements on social or economic policy, although it has supported the 2014–15 Venezuelan protests against supply shortages. MUD still occasionally faces internal divisions.〔''Political Handbook of the World 2015''. Venezuela.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Democratic Unity Roundtable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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