Venezuelan Popular Unity (Unidad Popular Venezolana) is a left-wing political party in Venezuela.^[1] It supported president Hugo Chávez^[1] and currently supports his successor Nicolás Maduro.^{[citation needed]} It won one seat in the National Assembly in the 2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election.^[1] It merged into the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in 2007^[1] but then was reinstated as a party in 2008.^{[citation needed]}