David Smolansky
| David Smolansky Urosa | |
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David Smolansky speaking at a rally.
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| Mayor of El Hatillo Municipality | |
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In office 8 December 2013 – 9 August 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Myriam Do Nascimento |
| Succeeded by | Reinaldo Díaz |
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27 May 1985 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Political party | Voluntad Popular |
| Alma mater | Andrés Bello Catholic University, Georgetown University |
David Smolansky Urosa (Caracas, May 27, 1985) is a politician, journalist, one of the leaders of the Popular Will party and former Mayor of El Hatillo municipality in Caracas - Venezuela for the period 2014-2017 . He was recognized by the Junior Chamber International as World's Outstanding Young Politician 2015. Threatened with prison, he has been in exile since 13 September 2017.
Smolansky is a second generation descendant of immigrants who left the Communist bloc. His grandparents fled Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union and settled in Cuba where they lived for about 50 years; in 1970 they escaped from Cuba to Venezuela when his father was 13 years old. The son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he received a multicultural and multireligious family education.
Smolansky completed elementary school and high school in U.E. Colegio El Penon (IEA), received his degree in Journalism at the Andres Bello Catholic University, then did a Masters in Political Science at Simon Bolivar University. He later received a scholarship in Georgetown University for the Global Competitiveness Leadership Program.
Beginnings in politics
Smolansky began his public appearances as one of the college students who led the protest against the kidnapping and murder of the Faddoul brothers in Caracas. Subsequently, he became one of the leaders of the student movement that protested against the closure of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) to claim the right to freedom of expression which would afterwards win the elections in 2007, in which was rejected President Hugo Chavez' proposal to reform the Constitution. In 2009, the elections known as Constitutional Referendum 2009 occurred in which Smolansky actively participated from the student leadership in the months before the elections, in the various protests and student demonstrations in rejection of the presidential proposal and the election day with the deployment to serve as board members and witnesses .
Popular Will Party and Democratic Unity Roundtable
After having completed his studies, he began his political career in the beginnings of the Democratic Unity Roundtable where he joined its communications team. At the same time, in 2009 he became a founding member of the Popular Will Party in which he served as national manager of the youth division and was subsequently chosen as a member of the national leadership of the party with more than 60 thousand votes in open primaries (being the second highest vote). Being a Popular Will activist and a member of the Popular Democratic Unity Roundtable, he actively participated in the 2012 electoral processes, both primary and presidential and then regional.
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