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===Biography===

Bachelor in Economy from [[Central University of Venezuela]] (UCV). He is one of the most outstanding leadersleader of the Venezuelan Left. He was member of the student resistance against the dictator [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]], being imprisoned in several occasions. He was a partisan in the command [[Douglas Bravo]] against the government of [[Rómulo Betancourt]]. Later, he entered in the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV). In [[1971]], Petkoff left the PCV to found, along with other dissidents of pro-Soviet trend, the [[Movement towards Socialism (Venezuela)|Movement towards Socialism]] (MAS). He was congressmen and presidential candidate twice.

In the second government of [[Rafael Caldera]] ([[1993]]-[[1998]]) he was Minister of the Central Office of Coordination and Planning (Cordiplan), because MAS was in coalition with the Christian Democratic party [[Convergence]] of Caldera, joint with other left parties as the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) and the MEP, and others center-right parties as the [[National Movement of Integration]].