Justice First Movement is a centrist political party

Political party

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 in Venezuela

Venezuela

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History

Primero Justicia was created in 1992 as a Civil Association by a group of university students (under the leadership of Alirio Abreu Burelli) who were concerned about what they saw as a deterioration of judicial power in the country and joined their efforts to contribute to the reform of Venezuela's legal system. Abreu Burelli was magistrate of the federal Supreme Court of Justice

Supreme Court of Venezuela

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 and Vice president

Vice president

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 of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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 of the Organization of American States

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 (OAS). The association entered the political arena as a result of the 1999 Constitutional Convention

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, during which they presented a draft for the country's new constitution

Constitution of Venezuela

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Following the July 2000 legislative elections

Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2000

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, five members of Primero Justicia were elected as deputies to the National Assembly (note: Primero Justicia boycotted the December 2005 legislative elections

Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2005

The 2005 Venezuela parliamentary election took place on 4 December 2005. The election sent 167 deputies to the National Assembly of Venezuela, 12 deputies to the Latin American Parliament and 5 deputies to the Andean Parliament...

, so the following people are no longer deputies in the National Assembly): Carlos Eduardo Ocariz Guerra, Gerardo Alberto Blyde Pérez, Julio Borges

Julio Borges

Julio Andrés Borges Junyent , is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s had a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on Radio Caracas Televisión...

, Ramón José Medina Simancas and Liliana de los Ángeles Hernández Soto.

This political movement's presidential candidate for the 2006 presidential elections

Venezuelan presidential election, 2006

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela held presidential elections on 3 December 2006, to choose a president for the six-year term to begin on 10 January 2007...

 was former congressman Julio Borges

Julio Borges

Julio Andrés Borges Junyent , is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s had a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on Radio Caracas Televisión...

. He dropped out of the race after both he and Primero Justicia decided to support Manuel Rosales

Manuel Rosales

Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero is a Venezuelan educator and politician and was the most prominent opposition candidate in the 2006 presidential election, losing to incumbent Hugo Chávez...

, then Mayor of Maracaibo, and former governor of Zulia State, for the presidency.

External links

• http://www.primerojusticia.org.ve
• http://www.justiciainternacional.org/