Juan Carlos Varela

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Juan Carlos Varela

Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez (born December 12, 1963 in Panama City ) is a Panamanian politician and was President of Panama from 2014 to 2019 .

biography

Varela, who from a family of entrepreneurs from the province of Herrera comes, graduated after attending the High School Colegio Javier studying engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology , where he graduated as an industrial engineer. After returning to Panama , he joined the family company Varela Hermanos in 1985 and remained Vice President of the company until 2008.

Varela, who belongs to the Partido Panameñista , began his political career in 1994 as deputy head of the election campaign of the then defeated presidential candidate Mireya Moscoso . In 1999 he was the head of the successful Moscoso election campaign. In 2006 he was finally elected chairman of the Partido Panameñista, the second largest party in the country.

In 2008, Varela was nominated as a candidate for the May 2009 presidential election. In the voter polls, however, he was well behind Ricardo Martinelli , chairman and presidential candidate of Cambio Democrático , and Balbina Herrera , candidate for the Partido Revolucionario Democrático . He then formed an electoral alliance with Martinelli and was elected Vice President in the presidential election on May 3, 2009, while Martinelli became President of Panama with more than 60 percent of the vote . On May 10, 2009, he was also nominated foreign minister by Martinelli.

On July 1, 2009, he was sworn in as Vice President and Foreign Minister.

On September 1, 2011, Varela was dismissed as Foreign Minister by President Ricardo Martinelli . It is said to have neglected this post because of its many other obligations. Martinelli urged him to resign as vice president. Finance and Housing Ministers also resigned to protest Varela's dismissal.

In the presidential election on May 4, 2014, Varela prevailed against candidate José Domingo Arias from the Cambio Democratico party and was elected the new President of Panama for the period from 2014 to 2019. Martinelli was not allowed to run for a second term under the constitution.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tribunal Electoral: Juan Carlos Varela gana presidencia de Panamá . In: Telemetro Panamá of May 4, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Juan Carlos Varela - New President of the Panameñista Party
  3. ↑ Juan Carlos Varela Will Launch Primary Campaign on January 3, 2008
  4. ↑ Panama shortly before the 2009 elections ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kas.de
  5. ^ Government crisis in Panama. In: ORF . September 1, 2011, accessed September 1, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Varela, Juan Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Panamanian entrepreneur, politician and president of the country
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Panama City