General Vzla. politics thread

Stormtroper

Edit: Whoops, accidental post. Ah well.

I mentioned earlier that the bolivar reached the 500Bs.F/$ mark, but if I'd waited something like four days more that'd have been the 630Bs.F/$ mark instead. That's the fastest I've seen it grow. Are we approaching hyperinflation?

• I think it's time to bring back color coding:
  
• María Corina has been barred from being a deputee for 12 months. Supposedly something recarding patrimony declaration of food stamps or some bullshit. The decision was brought by the Comptroller, which isn't his faculty to decide who can or can't hold public charges (that's the Supreme Tribunal of Justice), they just decided it'd be the one to decide so so it'd be faster.
  
• Enzo Scarano (from Clear Accounts, which doesn't seem to have a political colour) has also been disqualified for the same excuse.
  
• Pablo Pérez (former governor of Zulia and presidential precandidate) has, you guessed, also been disqualified for the same excuse, this time he's barred from holding public positions for ten years.
  
• As predicted by absolutely everybody, Daniel Ceballos has also been barred from public positions (12 months), again by the Comptroller, although it seems this time it's because of failing to declare patrimony at all, which seems less bullshit, I think.
  
• Interestingly they aren't barred from running as candidates, they just can't excert their positions until their bans expire, although that's a technicallity, and technicallities only apply when it serves the ones in power.
  
• List of 2012's MUD presidential precandidates: María Corina Machado (disqualified), Pablo Pérez (disqualified), Diego Arria (exiled), Antonio Ledezma (jailed), Leopoldo López (disqualified at the time, then jailed), Henrique Capriles (nothing... yet). And let's not forget presidential candidates Henrique Salas Römer (exiled) and Manuel Rosales (exiled).
  
• It seems the reds are already trying to beat Maduro vs. Capriles' record as the most bullshit of elections.
  

Stormtroper

There were floods at Guasdualito, which you'll remember as the municipality that had their mayor Lumay Barreto kicked out. Well, that didn't stop her from assisting in relief efforts. Regardless, thousands have lost their homes, unfortunately. Also, there's been reports of the National Guard appropriating and selling supplies sent to aid the population.

There was a huge police+national guard operation at Cota 905 in west Caracas to dismantle criminal gangs that had gained control of the area. The operative involved long gunfights over the course of days and left dozens of deaths (mostly from the not-police side) and seems to have involved lots of police brutality, including extra-judicial killings. Apparently they're starting to treat criminality with the same effort they treat students.

A debate has been going on in the opposition about the use of unique electoral card (MUD's). Most (all?) parties seem to be for it except Popular Will (which is ironic since years ago they were the ones for it with the others against). From what I understand going with an unique card is an incentive to promote a single image and is a symbolic gesture of unity, while there's some legal baggage to multiple parties going under a single card. And something about electoral witnesses, I don't quite understand it. Anyhow, it seems unique card is go.

Remember the gender parity thing for candidates? Well, the PSUV didn't fit the criteria either, so the National Electoral Council decided that candidatures decided through primaries are excepted from the rule (in their case, all of them). I want to say the MUD had it coming for not doing universal primaries, but I should remind myself they'd have found any other excuse to fuck up their candidacies.

The Guyana bickering hasn't stopped. As expected, our government will keep bringing it up to rile people until elections, then forget about it. Oh, and those allies the government spent so many oil barrells to buy off are siding with Guyana, guess that Maduro isn't so cool now that he's broke. Also, the other day I learned about the Rupununi uprising, in which amerindian ranchers from Rupununi (nearly half of the Zone In Reclamation) rose up in arms seeking independence from the newly independent Guyana, and requested assistance from President Caldera, which he rejected. You'd think that'd have been a golden opportunity to set things in our claim's favour, but apparently not. Was it not a very legitimate movement? Was it doomed to fail? I wonder what'd have happened. Anyhow, the Guyanese government's stance blaming it on Venezuelan interference is amusingly like ours scapegoating The Empire.

For those of you who still care about TV Tropes, I launched this.

Stormtroper

The Venezuelan Federation of Alcohol and the Like announced a strike, due to the lack of material for production. Moreover, its president Fray Roa was arrested by the Sebin after this.

Maduro admitted that the gender parity thing was something he brought up to the National Electoral Council.

The government expropriated a bunch of warehouses at Yaguara, belonging to a bunch of companies, including Polar Enterprises. A bit of history: 16 years ago Polar was a major food producer conglomerate, with heavy economic restrictions, expropriations, lack of judiciary security and overall the damage to the economy, Polar became something of a monopoly (the competition went under). This has made them ideal scapegoats for the government on their whole economic war thing, despite the fact that they're one reason scarcity isn't as bad as it could be (their products are often the only ones of their kind you can rarely find anymore).

Similar to what they do to NGOs, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice has been meddling with the internal affairs of Red Flag, COPEI, National Integrity Movement (oppositors) and People's Electoral Movement (officialist) for whatever reason overruling their inner elections and instead appointing some dissidents inside to hold important positions (the presidency in Red Flag's case, the candidates selection board in COPEI's case, and the whole national board in MIN and MEP's case, for demanding quotas from the PSUV).

So María Corina was denied her candidacy, in response she unilaterally registered Isabel Pereira as candidate. The MUD disagrees, and is having Freddy Guevara be their candidate instead, and so there's  been infighting over who's going to represent them. Gee, I don't know what to think about it, it's petty however you look at it. Anyhow, the MUD/Freddy move won out.

Huge looting wave in San Felix, Bolívar State, leaving one dead (allegedly by a Nazional Guard), thirty injured, and sixty arrested.

This probably has to do with the fact that looting became the topique-du-jour, but I've seen lots and lots of reports of looting all over the country.

Two officialist mayors have taken to fight smugglers/black market vendors (bachaqueros), first by taking the justice process in their own hands and convicting accusees by themselves, second by making the punishment be wearing an orange jumpsuit saying "I'm a bachaquero and I want to change", plus doing community work.

Daniel Ceballos has been put under house arrest.

Raúl Baduel (father) has been put on parole (the term came up).

Leocenis García (director of the journal 6to Poder) was abruptly sent home from jail without the medical aid required by someone who underwent 87 days (!) of hunger strikes. Hell, I didn't even know he was in jail.

Stormtroper

Boy, I haven't updated this thread despite the fact that a lot of shit has been going on.

It's worth remembering, the circuit disputed by María Corina and Freddy Guevara was one of those that had their number of seats reduced from two to one for dubious reasons. Both of them were supposed to be candidates.

Eulogio del Pino is now also president of PDVSA, in addition to Minister of Oil and Energy, so forget what I said months ago about accountability.

A woman was killed and dismembered by a guy called Pérez Venta. He had ties to a bunch of parties, including the PSUV, Justice First and Popular Will, and the latter suspected him of being one of those "cooperating patriots" (last year's govt. snitches). Now, due to his links to the opposition, the reds made a media circus making the association of just anybody in the opposition with paramilitarism, organized crime, etc., that lasted for a couple weeks of almost daily "revelations".

In response to the above lootings, the government created the "Operation Liberation of the People", a set of military operations similar to the Cota 905 one above, and have been doing massive raids, from what we've seen so far it's been in actual areas of high criminal activity, but it's been nonetheless involving lots of illegality around it (extrajudicial killings, raids without judicial permits, etc.).

After a bullshit trial Leopoldo has been declared guilty of incitement to violence, and sentenced to thirteen years of jail.

Around the Colombian border in Táchira, three militarymen and one civilian were shot at by a group of bikers (last I heard they're still alive). This wouldn't be anywhere close to news, but since the Guyana quarrel got old Maduro's reaction was to order closing down the Colombian border there, and claimed it was an attack by paramilitaries yaddah yaddah. Nicolás Trump then went on how Colombian immigration brings paramilitarism, drug trafficking, poverty, etc. and claimed that Venezuela can no longer manage it (citing a made-up number of 121,000 immigrants this year). Three days later he declares a state of exception in the state's five bordering municipalities, including limiting the right to protest (requiring a permit now), and allowing raids without judicial orders (not that they cared about that one). There's been a lot of military presence there, and a bunch of raids. Well over a thousand Colombians have been deported, and thousands have left (although this number includes people who were merely visiting), and reportedly a bunch have had their homes demolished. The state of exemption was extended to a bunch of Zulia's municipalities as well. Again, all of this is an escalation from the fact that four dudes were shot.

So much for Grand Colombia.

Stormtroper

Minimum wage increase of 30%. Inflation ahoy.

Jacqueline Faría (nomenklatura member): "Let's enjoy these sweet queues."

Remember (if I ever mentioned it anyways) those opposition media that were being sued by Diosdado over difamation charges after publishing some other journal's info about an interview involving Diosdy's drug trafficking antics? Well, they're going for it, there are apprehension orders for Miguel Henrique Otero (owner of the newspaper El Nacional) and Alberto Ravell (owner of the website La Patilla).

Manuel Rosales is back! Sort of. Reminder, he was Zulia's longtime governor and 2006's presidential candidate against ugo chabes, years later he would be accused of magnicide, and he in turn fled the country, now and then announcing he would be return but never doing so. This time it was for reals and a welcome party was expecting him, consisting of his wife, a crowd of partidaries, and a Sebin squad that promptly arrested him. He's awaiting trial now.

MadassAlex

Jesus Christ, I wish I could follow this all properly. Between Australia's decrepit politics, the EU's shenanigans, and the run-ups to the 2016 US Presidentials, the whole world appears to be imploding at once. I trust that you keep yourself safely? 

Stormtroper

I'll be fine. Impoverished and with lacking public services and food staples, but fine, at least for the time being.

(Also, to clarify, Manuel Rosales is not being charged with magnicide attempt, but with corruption.)

MadassAlex

If you think you'll be fine, that is at least some blessing. I don't have anything knowledgable to add, but I am glad that you are holding up. 

Stormtroper

On second though, "fine" might not have been the right word to use. I'll survive (short of getting murdered), but it's not been doing well for my mental health.

MadassAlex

Given your position, there is nothing wrong with being upset or frightened. Please do your best to hold on and find joy where you can. I am not the praying type, but I'll hold you in my thoughts. 

Stormtroper

Ahh, thanks. I'll try.

Stormtroper

Aww fuck, I missed updating this on University Student's day. Ah well. I should be updating more often anyways, much of this stuff isn't news anymore.

Yet another state of exception, this time in Atures, Amazonas. Also apparently I missed the news that another state of exception had been declared in the municipalities of Páez and Rómulo Gallegos, Apure.

The reds pinched a conversation between Lorenzo Mendoza (president of Polar Enterprises) and economist Ricardo Haussman (Minister of Planning during Carlos Andrés Pérez' govt.), about how to fix this economic mess, including lendings from the International Monetary Fund boogeyman. Despite the fact that they didn't say anything illegal or even outstanding, they're playing this as some sort of conspiracy against the nation on their and the IMF's part. They've now formally accused them to the General Prosecutor, although not much seems to have happened since.

Remember the hijacked party National Integrity Movement (MIN-UNIDAD)? Well, their new role is to pretend to be the MUD (claiming they're "the" opposition, similar slogans as the MUD, and this is what the voting cards look like).

A seemingly peaceful teacher protest in Barinas got repressed with tear gas and shit.

There was an incident at University of Zulia's Humanities Faculty where a bunch of shooters attacked and shot a student to death, and another was killed by being thrown onto a glass billboard. The CICPC is holding the (oppositor and never-graduating student) president of the University Centres' Federation Yorman Barrillas responsible for it, while he and his group are claiming pro-govt student groups did it, so...

Three different shootings happened recently involving opposition figures (Lilian Tintori, Capriles and Deputee and candidate Miguel Pizarro). No dead or injured, fortunately.

Franklin Nieves, one of the prosecutors for Leopoldo's case, took asylum in the USA and has been denouncing the politization of the judicial system, how judges are made to judge in favor of the PSUV, and the pressures he and others underwent for Leopoldo's prosecution.

Two of Cilia Flores' (Maburro's wife) nephew's were arrested in Haiti and sent to the USA over drug trafficking accusations, and are currently being held by the Drug Enforcement Administration apparently over being part of a drug trafficking ring which involves much of the government. The reds' reaction has varied from pretending they aren't her relatives to claiming they're being held hostage.

Edit: Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Maduro: "[if the possibility of the PSUV being defeated on the elections] happened, I am cerebrally, spiritually, politically and militarily prepared to take it on."

glennmagusharvey

I can't even pretend that I've read most of this, but I gotta say, this is an impressively detailed account, and I appreciate the color labeling of factions.

Is that an electronic voting machine?

Stormtroper

Sort of, that's the input board. This is the whole voting machine (sans fingerprint scanner), you press your selection on the board, see it on the screen, then confirm/cancel it. The machine saves the selection and prints a receipt that you put on the ballot box. At the end of the process the paper and machine votes are compared and, if nothing's wrong, the machine is connected (to the 'net?) and sent to the National Electoral Council central thing, and the ballot boxes are secured by the National Guard.

Ideally.

Stormtroper

Luis Manuel Díaz (one of Democratic Action's general secretaries) has been shot to death in the middle of a rally.

Noimporta

If it makes it any better, our soon to be president has been criticizing your government, and is pushing for sanctions.

Stormtroper

Our oppositors seem to be fond of the guy. I hope it helps.

vandro

I'm sad our ex-president was the only one putting pressure on maduro. Given he's a sleaze.

lrdgck

As a consolation prize, my blogger buddy just saw the light. When asked about the swerve in opinions, he admitted that while the situation actually was better a year ago, he did not know many facts about the state of the economy.

Stormtroper

Sooner or later, most people will see the revolution as the huge mistake it's been.

As for updates:

Extraofficially, the annualized inflation is 236.3%, somewhat on the pessimistic side of what some analysis groups have stated. This year's inflation will be the highest in the history of Venezuela by a very long shot, at least since it's been measured about a century ago.

It took a while, but eventually the govt did end up handing out free electoral stuff, specifically tablets for university students. Handouts haven't been as blatant as in previous years, though. Have they run out of money?

Globovisión took down their MUD's ads, allegedly due to government pressure.

 

You know how MIN-Unidad (MIN-Unidad?) has been hijacking the MUD's symbology and slogans? Well, they've also been involved in hijacking candidates. Some time ago they submitted Ismael García as a candidate for the same electoral circuit as Ismael García. A dubious choice for starters, but then they went all out (that's Ismael García to the left). At least this time the National Electoral Council did intervene against that. Also, Justin Bieber.

Stormtroper

Elections day!

Recap: Legislative elections for the 2016-2021 period. 167 Deputees are going to be elected today, some by name, some by list. Most polls give a wide margin of victory in terms of popular vote to the MUD, which is almost certain to result in a majority of assemblyists short of massive fraud. The media have had plenty of ads for candidates, but for whatever reason, I haven't seen too many ads in real life. Also unless I missed something, there's been no further change in electoral circuits beyond the one in Baruta I mentioned a couple pages ago, so the reds must be feeling comfortable with the setup they used to gerrymander 2010's elections.

Anyhow, I'm not terribly hopeful for these elections, my prediction is that the opposition will win the majority of seats, but due to the above gerrymandering and malapportionment not the 3/5 and 2/3 majority they need to elect other state powers, etc., and either way the govt. can bypass the assembly's checks, I mean, they've been doing that now even though they don't need to, so...

Anyhow, off to vote.

Stormtroper

It took me nearly two hours and a half to vote.

As expected there's been some reports of armed bikers intimidating voters (sans violence) and loads of proselytizing by the PSUV too close to voting centres and on media. Also a bunch of foreign expresidents who were serving as electoral witnesses (note: not observers, we no longer have those) had their permission revoked after claiming there was government advantageism. The Venezuelan Penal Forum denounced that one of their lawyers was arrested after denouncing unwarranted vote-assisting in a centre he was voting in. And there was this thing where apparently the major of Mérida was issuing ID cards to vote, was found out, and rioting ensued.

In the interest of fairness, a lot of oppositors were wearing those opposition flag-themed caps while in line for voting.

As for the outcome, the National Electoral Council issued a preliminary report, with the results of 145 candidacies, missing 22 of them for whatever reason. I'm hoping they get released soon enough.

Results:

• Democratic Unity Roundtable: 99 deputees (!)
  
• Great Patriotic Pole: 46 deputees
  
• Others: 0
  

Participation: 74.25% (i.e. very high)

Breakdown by state (taken from the MUD's exit polls, I'm guessing the missing states are those with at least one undecided winner):

Amazonas:

MUD: 3 ; GPP: 0

Anzoátegui
MUD: 8 ; GPP: 2

Apure
MUD: 1 ; GPP: 4

Aragua
MUD: 6 ; GPP: 3

Barinas

MUD: 6 ; GPP: 0

Bolívar

MUD: 8 ; GPP: 0

Capital District (Mostly Caracas)

MUD: 9 ; GPP: 0

Carabobo

MUD: 10 ; GPP: 0

Cojedes

MUD: 0 ; GPP: 4

Falcón

MUD: 3 ; GPP: 3

Mérida

MUD: 6 ; GPP: 0

Táchira:

MUD: 6 ; GPP: 1

Notes:

1. Whoa
   
2. Tamara Adrián has been elected as deputee, making her the first trans parliamentarist in the history of Venezuela.
   
3. Rosmit Mantilla, one of the candidates in jail, has been elected as deputee.
   
4. Diosdado is still a deputee.
   
5. I don't remember ever hearing fireworks after elections.

glennmagusharvey

You get your election day on a sunday?

Better than a tuesday.

vandro

Everyone here does it sunday.

lrdgck

1. Whoa

2. How casual is this? We've had that before, but one feels it was more of a novelty factor for liberal left.

3. Doesn't that make him more of a "trans parliamentarist"? *snicker*

4. Could you say (repeat I guess) to which side did those states previously have sympathies?

5. Me neither.

6. We have Sundays too. Usually there are some opposition antics anyway.

Stormtroper

IIRC only Carabobo, Lara, Táchira and Zulia were clearly oppositors (i.e. most of the populous, urban states), while Apure, Aragua, Barinas (the birdie's home state, which you'll notice is one of the states the MUD cleanswept), Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Falcón, Guárico, Monagas, Portuguesa, Trujillo, Vargas and Yaracuy were on chavism's side (i.e. smaller, rural ones). Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Capital District, Mérida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta and Sucre could go either way.

Elections are always on a Sunday, and it's legally a day off if it isn't already.

An openly LGBT candidate getting elected is unheard of, let alone one in the "T" part. I'll have to recheck but I think Rosmit Mantilla is LGBT as well (specifically, gay). Both are heavily involved in LGBT activism, which I'm guessing is great news for these folk.

According to a bunch of people, those results are in good part because of the govt's malapportionment. I'll have to read more on how that works. Anyhows, that'd mean they got that from cheating, even though it wasn't them doing the cheating.

The republic's and PDVSA's future bonds rose 3-4% today.

The MUD claimed it'd gotten 113 deputees. With the 22 remaining seats, that seems possible, and that'd be one more than they need for a 2/3 majority. Either way, short of trickery, they have a 3/5 majority (101) pretty much secured.

The new Assembly's president is expected to be Henry Ramos Allup. I'm not a fan of the man due to the fact he's turned into Democratic Action's dictator, plus concerns about conflicts of interest due to his connections with some reds, but he's a great orator and very knowledgeable about laws, so I think he'd be a great asset to the Assembly.

I wonder what'll happen to National Assembly TV now?

One of the first things the MUD said they'll do is an amnesty law for political prisoners.

There's a lot the MUD can do now, they've been given a vote of trust, thus they have a great responsibility on their hands, and above all they have to show the nation that things really can turn to the better.

lrdgck

I wish you they won't screw up. Much ink has been spilled over the '89 being squandered in some way or another, although the basic objective of ousting the commies from power had been achieved.

Noimporta

I heard of this today. Congrats, I hope we can all change for the better.

Stormtroper

Thank you both. One way or another things are going to change.

Things have been hopeful around here, a bunch of people and organizations are going all Christmas-listy pointing out all the ways the new Assembly can help out (and themselves), imo the most feasible being those about human rights and freedom of speech.

Anyhows, it's official, the MUD has won 112 seats. The final seat was decided by 82 votes. That means they have exactly what they need for a 2/3 supermajority (assuming no deputee gets bought off). I'll post more info when it's available.

As expected, this has resulted in unprecedented amounts of whining from the powers that be, on how it's all the economic/psychological war's fault against them, etc. and how we've made a mistake and will suffer. But what's more important is not what's said, but done, see below.

The rumor mill has been bursting with the rumor that on elections day afternoon (hereafter referred to as 6-D) for a number of reasons Minister of Defence Vladimir Padrino López refused to obey Cabello's demand that he order the Armed Forces to ignore collectives and allow them to stuff ballots, and later pressed the National Electoral Council to release the (partial) results. I find that very hard to believe, but it'd explain many things, and among the sources for that is abc.es, so, well, who knows?

Remember how Diosdado arbitrarily decided that the members of the Latin American parliament would be elected by the National Assembly? Yeah...

Maduro announced that he'll renew his ministers (again). If Padrino López is out, score for the above (conspiracy?) theory.

Maduro has already stated that he wouldn't accept any amnesty law. No specification on how this is in any way his choice.

Diosdado answered my question about the National Assembly's TV channel above (and its radio station, which I didn't know existed until now), he's going to yield the network's concession to "its workers", presumably a business front man of his. Can't let the opposition be presented fairly on state media.

Ctrl+F is telling me I didn't post about this, but as expected it's important. A while ago 12 magistrates resigned their positions, presumed to have been pressed by the government for some maneuver. Fast forward now Diosdado's said they'd elect the new magistrates to replace them before the new National Assembly assumes power, thus resetting their terms.

That Diosdy guy is such a charm, ain't he?

Edit: Maduro, while publicly reading tweets: "Nicolás Maduro, suck it."

Stormtroper

Results (figure in parenthesis is the % of valid votes):

Breakdown by Coalition (sauce):

• Democratic Unity Roundtable: 112 (56.5%)
  
• Great Patriotic Pole: 55 (41.0%)
• Others: 0

(Note, 112 deputees represent 67.1% of the total 167, note the disparity.)

Participation: 74.25%

Breakdown by state (sauce for number of deputees, sauce for % of votes):

Amazonas:

MUD: 2 (50.5%) ; GPP: 1 (45.7%)

Anzoátegui
MUD: 7 (59.4%) ; GPP: 1 (37.8%)

Apure
MUD: 1 (44.8%) ; GPP: 4 (52.9%)

Aragua
MUD: 8 (54.1%) ; GPP: 1 (43.2%)

Barinas

MUD: 5 (55.8%) ; GPP: 1 (42.5%)

(Bummer, no cleansweep)

Bolívar

MUD: 7 (59.6%) ; GPP: 1 (37.6%)

Capital District (note: not a state)

MUD: 8 (57.3%) ; GPP: 1 (39.8%)

Carabobo

MUD: 8 (53.1%) ; GPP: 2 (39.9%)

Cojedes

MUD: 1 (46.3%) ; GPP: 3 (55.5%)

Delta Amacuro

MUD: 1 (36.4%) ; GPP: 3 (58.3%)

Falcón

MUD: 4 (54.1%) ; GPP: 2 (42.1%)

Guárico

MUD: 1 (49.3%) ; GPP: 5 (50.3%)

Lara

MUD: 6 (54.7%) ; GPP: 3 (42.1%)

Mérida

MUD: 5 (51.5%) ; GPP: 1 (32.9%)

Miranda

MUD: 7 (59.9%) ; GPP: 5 (38.4%)

Monagas

MUD: 4 (51.5%) ; GPP: 2 (45.6%)

Nueva Esparta

MUD: 4 (60.9%) ; GPP: 1 (37.6%)

Portuguesa:

MUD: 1 (43.9%) ; GPP: 5 (53.3%)

Sucre:

MUD: 3 (49.1%) ; GPP: 3 (47.6%)

Táchira:

MUD: 6 (65.5%) ; GPP: 1 (29.2%)

Trujillo:

MUD: 2 (49.5%) ; GPP: 3 (46.2%)

Vargas:

MUD: 3 (52.3%) ; GPP: 1 (44.8%)

Yaracuy:

MUD: 2 (48.1%) ; GPP: 3 (50.7%)

Zulia:

MUD: 13 (60.2%) ; GPP: 2 (36.3%)

Breakdown by party (sauce):

• United Socialist Party of Venezuela: 55 (Accounting for 100% of GPP winners. I'm not sure if their other parties even had candidates.)
  
• Justice First: 33
  
• Democratic Action: 25
  
• A New Era: 21
  
• Popular Will: 14
  
• Progressivist Movement of Venezuela: 5
• The Яadical Cause: 3
• Progressivist Advance: 3
  
• Clear Accounts: 3
• Project Venezuela: 2
• Vente Venezuela (note: officially not a party): 1
• Brave People's Alliance: 1
  
• Convergence: 1

(I'm not sure how those who are partyless-but-MUD-affiliated are accounted for.)

Edit: Stuff.