Julio Andrés Borges Junyent (born 22 October 1969, in Caracas) is a

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n politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s he had a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on

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. He co-founded the party Primero Justicia in 2000 together with Henrique Capriles Radonski and

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Political career

In the 2000 parliamentary elections, Borges was elected to the

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, representing Primero Justicia and

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until 2005. Primero Justicia participated in the last minute opposition boycott of the 2005 elections, but Borges was elected again in the parliamentary elections of 2010. Borges ran for president in the opposition primaries for the Venezuelan presidential elections of 2006, but on August 9, 2006 dropped out to support

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, former governor of

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. Borges was involved in an incident in the National Assembly in April 2013, when violence broke out between PSUV and opposition legislators following the 2013 presidential election. According to Borges, the members of PSUV stood up at the beginning of the assembly and rushed the opposition.

Education

Borges studied law at the

Andrés Bello Catholic University Andrés Bello Catholic University also known in Spanish as Universidad Católica Andrés Bello is a private university in Venezuela. One of the largest universities in Venezuela, UCAB has campuses in several cities, such as Caracas (where the mai ...

, graduating in 1992, and got a master's degree in philosophy at Boston College (1994) and public policy at the

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(1996). primicias24.com, 20 July 2011
Dirigente político PJ Julio Borges: “Nosotros tenemos con qué ser el mejor país del mundo”
/ref> Nunez Munoz, Ingrid and Pineda Moran, Nury (2003), "Nuevos Partidos, Nuevos Liderazgos: Primero Justicia", ''Cuestiones Politicas'', 30, Jan-Jun 2003, pp45-74 He is married, and has four children.

References

External links

Primero Justicia Official webpage in Venezuela
* 1969 births Living people Politicians from Caracas Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela) Justice First politicians Andrés Bello Catholic University alumni Boston College alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Venezuelan democracy activists People of the Crisis in Venezuela Speakers of the National Assembly (Venezuela) Venezuelan exiles {{Venezuela-politician-stub