Ismenia Villalba ( Pampatar, Nueva Esparta, September 18, 1929 –

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, September 19, 2009), was a Venezuelan politician, wife of

Jóvito Villalba Jóvito Villalba Gutiérrez (March 23, 1908 – July 8, 1989), was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician, member of the Generation of 1928, founder of the party URD (''Democratic Republican Union'') and signer of the Puntofijo Pact The Pun ...

. Ismenia Villalba served as deputy for Caracas and Nueva Esparta and was the first woman that participates in a Presidential Election in Venezuela, representing the

Unión Republicana Democrática The Democratic Republican Union ( es, Unión Republicana Democrática, URD) is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945. History When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constituent assembly, then-dictator Marcos ...

in the 1988 election.El Universal, September 20, 2009. “Fallecìó la primera candidata a la presidencia” She won less than 1% of the vote.

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1929 births 2009 deaths People from Nueva Esparta Members of the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies Democratic Republican Union politicians 20th-century Venezuelan women politicians 20th-century Venezuelan politicians {{Venezuela-politician-stub

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