Fifth Republic Movement
By now Chávez was a supporter of taking military action, believing that the "oligarchy" would never allow him and his supporters to win an election, while Francisco Arias Cárdenas insisted that they take part in the representative democratic process. Indeed, Cárdenas soon joined the Radical Cause socialist party and won the December 1995 election to become governor of the oil-rich Zulia State. As a result, Chávez and his supporters founded a political party, the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR – "Movimiento Quinta República") in July 1997 in order to support Chávez's candidacy in the 1998 presidential election.