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	COPEI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Copei – Social Christian Party of Venezuela (Copei, Partido Social Cristiano de Venezuela) is a political party in Venezuela.
		It has suffered in the polls recently because of a perception among voters that it represents what was wrong with Venezuelan politics in the previous fifty years.
		At the last legislative elections, held on 30 July 2000, the party won 5 out of 165 seats in the National Assembly; four additional seats were won by an alliance with Democratic Action.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/COPEI (190 words)

	americas.org - Varying Views on Run-Up to Venezuelan Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		According to Perez Vivas, the Copei objected to CNE President Jorge Rodriguez announcement of the non-use of fingerprint scanners because he continued to deny that the scanners could be used to identify how people voted.
		Democratic Action and officials of two other parties, the Social Christian Party, or Copei, and the smaller Project Venezuela, accused the electoral authorities of failing to correct errors in the voter registry and in electronic voting equipment, opening the door to fraud and discrimination against opponents of the government.
		After their complaints succeeded in convincing the national electoral council (CNE) to refrain from implementing a fingerprinting system, the opposition parties subsequently declared that the removal of the fingerprint scanners was insufficient and that the CNE could not be trusted: in essence the opposition is crying fraud before a single vote has been cast.
	www.americas.org /item_23417 (5389 words)

	Anatotitan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, in 1990, paleontologists Ralph Chapman and Michael Brett-Surman argued that Anatosaurus copei was different enough from Edmontosaurus that it should be in a separate genus.
		The name Anatotitan was originally published in the Ph.D. thesis of Brett-Surman, but theses do not count as official publications according to ICZN regulations, so the official first publication of the name was in a separate 1990 paper authored by Chapman and Brett-Surman.
		Today, debate continues as to whether Anatotitan copei should be in its own genus or whether it should be a species of Edmontosaurus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anatotitan (787 words)

	Gila copei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Phylogenetic divergence in leatherside chub (Gila copei) inferred...
		Gila copei (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) leatherside chub.
		Leatherside chub, (Gila copei), SC-C. Utah chub, (Gila atraria),...
	fish.mongabay.net /G/Gila_copei.shtml (1349 words)

	Elections in Venezuela? You mean, is there a winner in that lot? \| www.vcrisis.com
		Unfortunately for Copei it seems that AD is the main beneficiary of this light revival of fortunes.
		Copei is still paying for its historical error of having tried to be more populist than AD instead of following its natural calling to become the center right political party that Venezuela needed.
		Copei knows this quite well, and has decided to keep some of its populist approach trying to link its fate in a more resurgent AD, happy to get back a couple of governorship if possible.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200404051533 (1428 words)

	The Strange Death of the Venezuelan Party System
		Meanwhile in 1997 COPEI decided to support the independent candidacy of Irene Saez who was a former beauty queen, an elected mayor of a suburb of Caracas and, when COPEI first decided to support her, the front runner in the presidential polls.
		Both COPEI and Irene should have been made more cautious by a Datanalisis poll in 1997 which stated that Saez would receive 42% of the vote if she stood as an independent and 35% of the vote if she stood as an independent while accepting COPEI support.
		One transparent purpose of this change was to enable AD and perhaps COPEI to use their stronger machines to poll well in November and thereby strike a psychological blow ahead of the December elections.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~mmarteen/svs/lecturas/lasa2000/philip.htm (8915 words)

	Party politics in Venezuela, 1963-2000
		The development of the major political parties, such as AD, COPEI, and the URD with their cross-cutting, personalist ic constituencies and their impressive acceptance of friendly rivalry, is a reflection of the fact that there is an absence of politically salient and relevant natural division in Venezuela.
		Also like AD, COPEI has been troubled with recent internal divisions among members of the party, as a new generation attempts to wrest leadership away from the old party bosses.
		In 1993, COPEI won 26 percent of the legislative seats, and in 1996, it won 13 percent (Ameringer 1992, Levine 1987).
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/3-SouthAmerica/39-Venezuela/Venezuela63-00.htm (3716 words)

	Venezuela - Political Flags - Part 1
		Copei, the Venezuelan Christian Democratic party, was founded in 1946.
		Copei (which stands for the non-ideological name of Comité de Organizacion Politico Electoral Independiente - Independent Electoral Politic Organization Commitee) won the presidency in 1968 and in 1978; currently, its national presence has diminished, as a result of the disastrous elections of 2000; however, it remains as one of the main opposition parties.
		The traditional colour of Copei is green, in a myriad of shades and tones.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ve}.html (3169 words)

	COPEI leader owns up to a couple of home truths and roars in resignation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		COPEI's national leadership should hand in their resignation for starters, Fernandez growls, it's only fair.
		COPEI, it has gone from bad to worse in 12 years...
		COPEI has badly administered 4 million votes of people that should have voted on October 31 and in doing so, COPEI committed political suicide.
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=23495 (416 words)

	Venezuela - POLITICAL DYNAMICS
		Possibly because their parties have either held the presidency or have been considered potential winners of the presidency, AD and COPEI legislators have, in general, displayed responsibility in adhering to the political and legislative process and have not gone to extremes to destabilize the executive.
		Although Pérez's victory in the December 1988 elections broke the pattern of alternating victories for AD and COPEI, his party lost absolute control of Congress in the legislative vote.
		Of a total 253 congressional seats--204 in the Chamber of Deputies and 49 in the Senate--AD won with 121 seats (98 deputies and 23 senators), COPEI 89 seats (67 deputies and 22 senators), and MAS 22 seats (19 deputies and 3 senators).
	countrystudies.us /venezuela/45.htm (1054 words)

	Puntofijismo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Puntofijismo was a formal arrangement arrived at between representatives of Venezuela's three main political parties in the 1960s: Acción Democrática, COPEI and Unión Republicana Democrática.
		The term originates from Punto Fijo, Rafael Caldera's house at the time in Caracas, where representatives of the Democratic Republican Union (URD), Social Christian (COPEI) and Democratic Action (Acción Democrática, AD) parties signed a pact that, according to some politicians, bound them to limit Venezuela’s political system to an exclusive competition between two parties.
		Some claim that the accord allowed the rising Venezuelan democracy to survive in the 60's the invasions and guerrillas funded by governments from extreme right wing (Rafael Leónidas Trujillo) to extreme left wing (Fidel Castro).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puntofijismo (222 words)

	Venezuela Reference Information - Politics and Power - Political Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Along with COPEI, AD was the key political force for 40 years in Venezuelan politics until president Chávez entered the political stage.
		The christian democratic COPEI was founded by former president Rafael Caldera in 1945.
		COPEI has suffered most electorally from the stigma that it embodies all that was wrong with Venezuelan politics during the 40 years of AD and COPEI rule.
	www.latin-focus.com /latinfocus/factsheets/venezuela/venfact_pol_parties.htm (476 words)

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		Many observers know that AD and COPEI, following the lead of their presidential candidates during the 1988 election year, passed an electoral reform that established the direct election of mayors and governors for the first time in 1989; this has been seen as a move away from the hierarchical discipline typical of partyarchy.
		Although AD and COPEI's popular support had already dwindled to virtual insignificance, their militants were believed to be entrenched still in the congress, the courts, the bureaucracy, the electoral council, and state and municipal governments.
		AD and COPEI had cleverly arranged for the 1998 congressional and gubernatorial elections to be held one month before the presidential elections so that Chávez's powerful coattails would not affect these elections.
	www.nd.edu /~mcoppedg/crd/iadven2000_06.htm (10778 words)

	COPEI accuses MIJ Minister of promoting disturbances in Petare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Contreras Pulido has thanked the Metropolitan Police (PM) for preventing a group of criminals from reaching Lebrun street where the COPEI (and opposition) rally was being held.
		Local COPEI leader, Guillermo Hernandez has placed a formal complaint at the Attorney General's Office about damage caused to the party office in Petare's historical center.
		Some political observers suggest that COPEI has been blowing up its "victory" to boost its position inside the Coordinadora Democratica (CD) where it has been seen as a minor actor or poor cousin to dominant Accion Democratica (AD).
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=8298 (188 words)

	II Journal: Democracy in Venezuela: Crisis and future prospects
		Disaffection undeermined the political dominance of the AD and COPEI parties,(2) which together had pulled in over 80 percent of the popular vote in elections since 1973.
		In the 1993 presidential elections the AD-COPEI joint vote fell to 45 percent, as former president Rafael Caldera abandoned COPEI to lead a new coalition to victory.
		Crisp suggested that if democracy is to survive in Venezuela, reform at the core must take place: loosening party control, furthering decentralization, and lowering barriers to access and representation by emerging social and economic groups including new unions and business associations.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol3no2/v3n2_DemocracyInVenezuela.html (1064 words)

	Visit to Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The two major parties, COPEI and AD (equivalent to the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S.) have fallen into disrepute, so that their nominees had little chance of receiving any appreciable public support.
		When we arrived on Friday, it was generally believed that Hugo Chavez was still ahead in the polls, and that the concerted effort to defeat him was not likely to succeed.
		Irene Saez had agreed to COPEI's decision, but Alfaro continued claiming to be the AD party's nominee.
	www.cartercenter.org /viewdoc.asp?docID=31&submenu=news (1210 words)

	COPEI - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The COPEI experiment taking place off the Chesapeake Bay entrance is scheduled for September 15-30, 1996 and will involve a host of 4 ships and 3 planes.
		The plume dissipation is strongly influenced by the tidal effects which change on 12 hour intervals.
		Toward this effort a group of scientist from NRL and University and Federal Agencies have gathered to examine the Chesapeake Bay Plume during the low fall runoff season
	www7333.nrlssc.navy.mil /Exercises/COPEI/Intro.html (237 words)

	Daily News - eluniversal.com
		Opposition Copei party is to make a petition at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice for the National Assembly (AN) to regulate President Hugo Chávez electoral campaign.
		Copei Secretary-General César Pérez Vivas labeled as abuse the president's "unleashed political activism."
		Copei reckons that the legislature has failed to fulfill its responsibilities under the Constitution, as it has not enacted a law to regulate the president's actions as candidate.
	english.eluniversal.com /2006/02/06/en_pol_art_06A667661.shtml (154 words)

	Country Profile Venezuela - EIU Online Store
		The founder of COPEI and former president in 1968-73, Rafael Caldera, capitalised on the popular rejection of Mr Pérez.
		The party benefited from growing disaffection with AD and COPEI, and in 1993 union leader and the LCR’s presidential candidate, Andrés Velásquez, was narrowly defeated in a contest marred by allegations of fraud.
		A member of COPEI and governor of Miranda state, Mr Mendoza was respected during the 1990s as an advocate of political reform.
	store.eiu.com /index.asp?layout=show_sample&product_id=30000203&country_id=VE (15249 words)

	Polarized Politics in Chávez's Venezuela - Steve Ellner
		The marginal sectors of the population, which fervently support Chávez, are now pitted against the old elites and the middle class, which since Chávez's election in December 1998 have become increasingly hostile to his government.
		In accordance with the deal, AD, which triumphed in the presidential elections of that year, granted the losing parties of the Pact a "fair share" of the spoils in the form of ministries and governorships in order to avoid an embittered opposition.
		The final display of disenchantment came in the 1998 elections when the popularity of each presidential candidate was directly proportional to the degree to which he or she was able to convincingly articulate an anti-pacted-democracy discourse.
	www.neravt.com /left/contributors/ellner4.htm (3246 words)

	The Daily Journal - No delay on vote -- Chávez, Rangel claim US attempt to destabilize venezuela
		AD and Copei, who used to be the two big parties in Venezuelan politics until President Hugo Chávez and his Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) came onto the scene, each withdrew 86 candidates, claiming the fault for this lay with the CNE.
		Copei has argued that the CNE needs more time to set things right, implying the elections could still go ahead at a later date.
		One survey suggested over 70 percent of voters had already intended to abstain before AD and Copei made their move.
	www.thedailyjournalonline.com /article.asp?ArticleId=206583&CategoryId=10718 (617 words)

	The Daily Journal - Doubts swirl around old opposition parties
		With their decision to pull out of the race, AD (the whites) and Copei (the greens) may have sealed their own fate.
		Time was when AD and Copei between them used to wrap up at least half of the votes after the Pérez Jiménez dictatorship was overthrown in 1958.
		Seven years later, he ran against another Copei dissident, Enrique Salas Römer, who opted to stand under the banner of his own creation, Proyecto Venezuela, the third party to withdraw its candidates.
	www.thedailyjournalonline.com /article.asp?CategoryId=10717&ArticleId=208114 (535 words)

	Venezuela - Political Parties
		The trienio was a time of great political ferment during which two former leaders of the Generation of 1928 came to the fore.
		AD and COPEI went on to hold the presidency a number of times, while Villalba made several runs for the office.
		The most noteworthy aspect of Venezuelan party politics, however, was not the proliferation of small parties, but rather the fact that two parties, AD and COPEI, have been the major contenders for power for over three decades.
	countrystudies.us /venezuela/47.htm (737 words)

	ABC News: Venezuela Opposition Quits Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Another party, Project Venezuela, announced its withdrawal from the vote, while the Social Christian Party, or Copei, threatened to boycott if the elections are not postponed.
		Cesar Perez, Copei's secretary general, cited complaints about bias in the electoral council and the alleged use of public funds for campaigning.
		Democratic Action and Copei long steered national politics before Chavez's meteoric rise to power in 1998 elections.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1357284 (428 words)

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