Justice First

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Justice First
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The Justice First (

centre-right political party in Venezuela. Founded in 1992 as a civil association, it became a political party in 2000. Henrique Capriles was the candidate of the party in 2013 Venezuelan presidential election
.

History

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

In the

Miranda in 2008. The party had six deputies elected at the 2010 parliamentary elections
: Tomas Guanipa in Zulia, Juan Carlos Caldera and Julio Borges in Miranda, Dinorah Figuera in the capital district, Richard Mardo in Aragua, and Richard Arteaga in Anzoátegui.

In December 2019, in

Armando.info published an investigation on corruption among opposition politicians, leading to the expulsion of deputies, including Luis Parra, José Brito and Conrado Pérez [es], from PJ.[4] In 2020, José Brito and Conrado Pérez filed a complaint in the Supreme Tribunal of Justice against the leadership of Justice First. The deputies asked to be restituted in the party, saying that there was no justification to be expelled, and that their due process, right of defense and presumption of innocence had not been respected. They also asked the high court to appoint a new leadership "that was in Venezuela", since the current one was in exile, and to summon new internal elections.[5]

The deputies were received by the president of the Constitutional Chamber and the meeting lasted a little more than an hour. Outside the Supreme Tribunal, a group of around two hundred people met in support of the deputies. El Pitazo reported that earlier in the morning, some persons were handing out shirts of the party, most apparently new. Several demonstrators interviewed by the outlet expressed ignoring the reasons of the meeting or the contents of the complaint introduced. In some cases, they affirmed having been taken by bus, could not say for long they were part of Justice First, did not know that Luis Parra was not present or declared being paid for assisting.[6][7] The party's secretary general, Tomás Guanipa, declared that the deputies sought to give the party's electoral card to Nicolás Maduro.[8] In January 2020, the disputed 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election took place to determine who would be the President of the National Assembly for the period 2020-21 period; pro-government MPs and the expelled PJ deputies voted for Parra while the remaining PJ deputies endorsed incumbent president Juan Guaidó.[9]

Ideology

The Justice First party is a

social democrats to laissez-faire economists. Despite these differences, their opposition to Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro unifies them. Due to the very diverse makeup of this organization, it is difficult for foreign commentators to analyze its properties and policies. Some of their listed policies include increasing local autonomy, abolishing the National Assembly, which is deemed to be corrupt, and passing tax cuts and welfare/pension funding increases. Other than that, the organization remains extremely vague.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ Ryan Brading (2013). Populism in Venezuela. Routledge. p. 132.
  2. ^ Carlos Meléndez (2014). "Is There a Right Track in Post-Party System Collapse Scenarios? Comparing the Andean Countries". In Juan Pablo Luna; Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.). The Resilience of the Latin American Right. Johns Hopkins University. p. 182.
  3. ^ (in Spanish) Nunez Munoz, Ingrid and Pineda Moran, Nury (2003), "Nuevos Partidos, Nuevos Liderazgos: Primero Justicia", Cuestiones Politicas, 30, Jan-Jun 2003, pp45-74
  4. ^ "Venezuela: denuncian a siete diputados de corrupción". Infobae. 20 December 2019. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  5. ^ Coscojuela, Sarai (16 January 2020). "José Brito, Conrado Pérez y Luis Parra empiezan la pelea por la directiva de Primero Justicia". Runrun.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  6. ^ González, Gabriela (16 January 2020). "Comienza la batalla por el partido Primero Justicia". El Pitazo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Hombre afirmó que recibió 15$ por asistir a concentración de Parra". El Pitazo (in Spanish). 16 January 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  8. ^ Leonett, Vanessa (16 January 2020). "Tomás Guanipa: "Diputados expulsados buscan entregarle a Maduro tarjeta de PJ"". El Pitazo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  9. ^ Saleha Mohsin (13 January 2020). "U.S. Sanctions Venezuela's Parra Over National Assembly Rift". Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

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