two years later, in 2009, guaidó helped set up a political party, the popular will party. he is a member of this party. in 2014, he was the party's national coordinator. cnn says that he was "mentored for years" by leopoldo lópez, a more famous member of popular will. guaidó and lópez talk to each other a lot, even though lópez cannot leave his house. guaidó was well known to other people in popular will, but was not famous to other people until 2019, when lópez said he should be leader of popular will.