First Justice
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Justice First
Primero Justicia |
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| Leader | Henrique Capriles Radonski |
| Deputy Leaders |
Richard Mardo, Carlos Ocariz |
| Coordinator | Julio Borges |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Edif. Pofili, Urb. Los Palos Grandes, Caracas |
| Ideology |
Third Way Progressivism Humanism |
| Political position | Centre to Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Democratic Unity Roundtable |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Yellow, black |
| National Assembly |
33 / 167
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| Seats in the Latin American Parliament |
1 / 12
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| Seats in the Mercosur Parliament |
0 / 23
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| Governors |
1 / 23
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| Mayors |
13 / 337
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Justice First (Spanish: Primero Justicia) is a centre-left political party in Venezuela. Founded in 1992 as a civil association, it became a political party in 2000.
Justice First was created in 1992 as a civil association by a group of university students under the leadership of Alirio Abreu Burelli. The group was concerned about what they saw as a deterioration of judicial power in the country, and sought a reform of Venezuela's legal system. Abreu Burelli was magistrate of the federal Supreme Court of Justice and Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The association entered the political arena during the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, in which they presented a draft for the country's new constitution. Justice First became a political party in 2000, initially as a regional party, and registered as a national party with the National Electoral Council of Venezuela on 1 March 2002.
In the July 2000 legislative elections, five members of Justice First were elected as deputies to the National Assembly for a five-year term: Carlos Eduardo Ocariz Guerra, Gerardo Alberto Blyde Pérez, Julio Borges, Ramón José Medina Simancas and Liliana de los Ángeles Hernández Soto. Justice First participated in the last minute opposition boycott of the 2005 elections, so they had no representatives in the Assembly from 2005 to 2010. They contested the 2006 presidential elections with former congressman Julio Borges, but he dropped out of the race in support of Manuel Rosales, then Mayor of Maracaibo, and former governor of Zulia State.
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