Didalco Bolívar

Didalco Bolívar is a Venezuelan politician, and was Governor of Aragua State from 1995 to 2008. His first three election victories (1995, 1998, 2000) were as a representative of the Movement for Socialism. In the 2004 elections he represented For Social Democracy (PODEMOS), a party he co-founded in 2003.^[1]

In 2009 he fled to Peru after being charged with corruption allegedly committed while Governor.^[1] He was arrested on his return to Venezuela on 31 August 2011, and was released on probation in September.^[2] Shortly before his return he claimed that PODEMOS was selling nominations for governorships, and had concluded a $9m deal with a Miami-based businessman associated with the party.^[3]

In June 2012 Bolívar was declared provisional president of PODEMOS following a court challenge.^[4] Bolívar argued that he had never given up the leadership of PODEMOS, and that the appropriate electoral procedures to replace him had not been followed.^[5] One of his first acts was to announce PODEMOS would withdraw from the Socialist International,^[4] after the organization had rejected the Supreme Court of Venezuela decision that installed him as provisional president.^[6] Another was to declare that PODEMOS would support Chavez' candidacy in the October 2012 elections.^[5] He said that 70% of PODEMOS supporters wanted Chavez re-elected.^[7]

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