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The '''Democratic Unity Roundtable''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: '''Mesa de la Unidad Democrática''', shortened '''MUD''' or '''Unidad''') is a broad, big-tent alliance of oppositionists to the [[Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Nicolás Maduro|Maduro]] government. In contrary to portrayals in mass media, the MUD consists mostly of [[liberal]]s who would e.g. like to legalize [[abortion]] and [[same-sex civil union]]s, thus being more socially leftist than the Maduro government. However many of the parties included have contradictory views to each other they all share the same distrust of Maduro's authoritarian [[socialist]] regime. Out of the 16 parties represented in MUD, only 4 are right-of-center. This is due to the fact that in Latin America, [[Christian Democratic]] parties tend to be centre-left compared to the rest of the world where they are centre-right to right-wing.  In the Venezuelan parliament, altogether only 4 of 109 MUD MPs are right-of-center. Economically more MUD parties are conservative, but the majority of them is also on the left.

The '''Democratic Unity Roundtable''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: '''Mesa de la Unidad Democrática''', shortened '''MUD''' or '''Unidad''') is a broad, big-tent alliance of oppositionists to the [[Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Nicolás Maduro|Maduro]] government. In contrary to portrayals in mass media, the MUD consists mostly of [[liberal]]s who would e.g. like to legalize [[abortion]] and [[same-sex civil union]]s, thus being more socially leftist than the Maduro government. However many of the parties included have contradictory views to each other they all share the same distrust of Maduro's authoritarian regime. Out of the 16 parties represented in MUD, only 4 are right-of-center. This is due to the fact that in Latin America, [[Christian Democratic]] parties tend to be centre-left compared to the rest of the world where they are centre-right to right-wing.  In the Venezuelan parliament, altogether only 4 of 109 MUD MPs are right-of-center. Economically more MUD parties are conservative, but the majority of them is also on the left. Most MUD parties are members of the [[Socialist International]] such as the ''Acción Democrática'', ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' or ''Voluntad Popular''.

The MUD is currently struggling to rein in their supporters in the ever-growing [[Crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela]] as they react to the brutality of the Maduro regime and its drug lord backers.

The MUD is currently struggling to rein in their supporters in the ever-growing [[Crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela]] as they react to the brutality of the Maduro regime and its drug lord backers.