“If we win the primaries, I am going to compete with Nicolás Maduro to remove him from the presidency that he usurps,” said Juan Pablo Guanipa, who is part of the national board of directors of Primero Justicia. After serving as a councilor for Maracaibo, in 2015 he ran for legislative elections and obtained a position as deputy for the state of Zulia. Two years later he won the governorship of Zulia with 51.06% of the votes, but by not taking the oath in front of the National Constituent Assembly, which he denounced as illegitimate, he lost his position.
Deputy John Paul Guanipa On Thursday, October 27, he made his aspirations official to represent Primero Justicia (PJ) in the next presidential elections, scheduled for 2024, anticipating other “justiciers” such as former Governor Henrique Capriles or former Mayor Carlos Ocariz, who have raised the possibility of running. in the primaries.
At a meeting of the Political Committee of the PJ in the state of Zulia, Guanipa reported on his decision to present himself as a candidate within the party, which after an internal review and a process of choosing new authorities, is now preparing an internal statute to choose the candidate that will represent them in the opposition primaries, still without a date.
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“I want to inform you, formally, that I have decided to put my name as a candidate to fight to defeat Nicolás Maduro in the year 2024. That I am willing to fight to be the Justice First candidate for the Presidency of Venezuela” , announced the deputy, who also holds the position of first vice president of the National Assembly elected in 2015.
Guanipa said that “if we win the primaries, I will compete with Nicolás Maduro to remove him from the presidency that he usurps.”
In addition, he assured that “if in this effort we have to give our lives, I am willing to give my life to achieve freedom and democracy, even my family knows that, because what we are playing for is the future of this country (… ) We are risking the survival of Venezuela as a Republic. It is not just any bullshit that we are playing for”.
Juan Pablo Guanipa, 57, is a lawyer and is part of the national board of directors of Primero Justicia. After serving as a councilor for Maracaibo, in 2015 he ran for legislative elections and obtained a position as deputy for the state of Zulia. Two years later he won the governorship of Zulia with 51.06% of the votes, but by not taking the oath in front of the National Constituent Assembly, which he denounced as illegitimate, he lost his position.
In January 2020 he was appointed as the first vice president of the National Assembly elected in 2015, which continues functions under the figure of the delegated commission because they do not recognize the 2020 legislative elections.
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