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Democratic Unity Roundtable State Primaries, 2012
The Venezuelan Democratic Unity Roundtable held state primaries in order to choose its candidates for local offices including state governors and mayors on February 12, 2012. According to the MUD regulations, if an incumbent gubernatorial governor decides to re-elect, he can do so without having to measure himself in primaries, unless the political forces that obtained 55% of the opposition's votes in the entity in the last parliamentary elections are against. In this way, the realization of primaries in some states currently governed by the Venezuelan opposition is not expected. On Friday, November 4, 2011, the Bureau of Democratic Unity (MUD) decided by consensus on December 16, 2012, the candidacies in 6 states (Zulian Region, Venezuela, Zulia, Lara, Venezuela, Lara, Táchira, Nueva Esparta, Carabobo and Amazonas (Venezuelan state), Amazonas) and the Metropolitan District of Caracas. Candidates for state governors and mayors of their capitals References {{Venezuelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuelan
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liborio Guarulla
Liborio Guarulla Garrido is an indigenous Venezuelan politician. He is of Baniwa ethnicity. He served as governor of Amazonas state from 2001 to 2017. Early life Guarulla was born on July 23, 1954, in the Amazonas town of La Isleta, in the Maroa Municipality. He studied at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, graduating with a degree in Visual Arts. Career He joined several political parties: MAS, La Causa Radical, and Patria Para Todos; with the latter, he won the governorship of his state. A challenge was mounted before the Supreme Court in the 2000 election in which José Bernabé Gutiérrez of the Acción Democrática party was initially declared the winner. After an alleged fraud was demonstrated, the areas in question re-voted, and Guarulla won for the 2001–2005 period. He was re-elected in 2005 and 2010. Guarulla worked with other opposition leaders to form a unity candidate to challenge Hugo Chávez for the presidency. He separated from the party Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |