Word: copei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...
...make it easier for the illiterate, the ballot of each party was a different color: white for Acción Democrática,, green for COPEI, brown for the tiny URD, red for the Communists, black for the dissident Miquelena Communists...
Over & over, the men & women massed in the Caracas bull ring chanted "Caldera si, Gallegos no!" Venezuela's chief opposition party, the right-wing COPEI (Committee for Independent Electoral Political Organization), had at last found a candidate for the presidential election on Dec. 14. Against famed 63-year-old Novelist Romulo Gallegos, candidate of the ruling Acción Democrática, would be pitched young (31), burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Rafael Caldera, one of COPEI's founders...
...COPEI's crowded headquarters in an old tumbledown house in the north end of the capital, Caldera talked of the campaign. Said he: "We have no great illusions. Our fight will be important in the civic and educational sense." A year ago, in the elections to the Constituent Assembly, COPEI polled about 220,000 votes to Acción's 1,200,000; Caldera was one of 19 COPEI members elected to face Action's 137. This week Caldera begins a 20-state tour; the ex-schoolteacher will learn a lot of civics between now and election...
Provisional President Romulo Betancourt's new-dealish Action Democrdtica Party won by a landslide, away out in front of the conservative Copei Party, the middle-of-the-road Democratic Republican Union and the Communists...