Primero Justicia
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| Party leader | Julio Borges (declared deposed by the regime) |
| Secretary General | Tomás Guanipa |
| founding | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Edificio Pofili, Urbanización Los Palos Grandes, Caracas |
| Alignment | liberalism |
| Colours) | yellow black |
| Parliament seats |
33/165 |
| Website | www.primerojusticia.org.ve |
Primero Justicia (abbreviation: PJ ; German justice first ) is a right-wing liberal party in Venezuela . The party's general secretary is Tomás Guanipa, the party chairman is Julio Borges .
history
Primero Justicia was founded in 1992 as a civil movement against the collapse of the legal system by a group of students led by Alirio Abreu Burelli, a judge of the Venezuelan Supreme Court and Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States .
After the collapse of the old Venezuelan two-party system of Acción Democrática and COPEI at the end of the 1990s, the movement developed into a political party that was particularly popular with disappointed supporters of COPEI.
During the constitutional referendum of 1999, it unsuccessfully presented a liberal draft constitution based on the principle of representative democracy as a counter-concept to the " Bolivarian " draft of the Constituent Assembly , which is based on the principle of participatory democracy .
In the elections to the National Assembly on July 30, 2000, the party had 5 out of 165 seats.
In 2002 the party took part in the organization of an unsuccessful general strike against Chavez. The following year, it called again for a general strike, which was also unsuccessful. In 2004 she was in charge of the failed referendum to impeach Chávez.
In the following years the party was able to consolidate its structure, which is said to be due not least to financial and organizational help from abroad (e.g. from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , which is close to the CDU ).
After other opposition parties had previously withdrawn their candidacy, Primero Justicia boycotted the parliamentary election on December 4, 2005, according to his own account, out of criticism of the Chavez government's policies and fear of election fraud .
For the presidential elections on December 3, 2006, Primero Justicia had initially set up party chairman and former MP Julio Borges as a candidate, but then agreed with other opposition parties on Manuel Rosales , who was defeated by Chavez.
Since 2008, Primero Justicia has played an important role in the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática party alliance , which unites most of the opposition groups against the Chavez government and, since 2013, its successor Nicolás Maduro. In November 2008, Henrique Capriles (running as the general candidate of the opposition parties) won the regional elections in Miranda as governor. Another politician of the party, Carlos Ocariz , was elected mayor for the Sucre district, which is part of Caracas .
In the 2010 parliamentary elections , the party won 6 seats in the National Assembly. In the 2012 and 2013 presidential elections , the PFY politician Henrique Capriles was the opposition camp's common candidate, but was defeated by Chavez and Maduro. In 2013, the defeat was extremely narrow (49 to 50.8%), Capriles and the opposition alliance charged the election fraud and did not recognize the result.
The MUD clearly won the 2015 parliamentary election . On their lists, 33 members of Primero Justicia entered the National Assembly. It is thus the strongest party in the bloc of the parliamentary majority, which however does not constitute the government due to the presidential system. The PFY chairman Julio Borges was the parliamentary majority leader from January 2016 to January 2017, after which he was elected President of the National Assembly.
After the opposition parties decided not to take part in the parliamentary elections in Venezuela in 2020 because it would not be held as a free election, the Venezuelan Supreme Court loyal to the regime dismissed the party's executive board and set up a pro-government executive.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Venezuela ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Weltatlas, Tagesschau.de. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ↑ Venezuela at a glance ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 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. , German Embassy Caracas, as of March 2012. Accessed January 20, 2013.
- ^ Gerhard Dilger: Presidential candidate in Venezuela: A tough chunk for Hugo Chávez. In: TAZ . February 13, 2012, accessed January 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Stefan Frank: After the coup is before the coup. In: Konkret , No. 8/2004, accessed on May 17, 2008
- ↑ Integración de la Asamblea Nacional por partido político. ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 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. In: El Universal (Online), December 10, 2015.
- ^ Supreme Court replaces opposition party board; in: SPON from July 8, 2020, online
