Carlos Gimenez

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Carlos Eduardo Giménez Colmenares is a Venezuelan politician and has been the governor of Yaracuy since October 2004.

Yaracuy State Governor Election, 2004 Results Source: CNE data

Candidates Votes % Carlos Gimenez 101481 51% Eduardo Lapi 94835 47%

[edit] Biography

Carlos Eduardo Giménez Colmenares was born in the Independencia Municipality, located in the Yaracuy State on April 9, 1959. He would go on to study law at the Universidad Fermin Toro in Barquisimeto in the Lara State. He was elected to the Yaracuy Legislative Assembly in 1993 where he would serve until 1996, when he was elected mayor of Independencia Municipality. In 1998, he became vice-president of the Bolivarian National Asociation of Mayors of Venezuela (Asociacion Nacional Bolivariana de Alcaldes de Venezuela). That same year, he supported the candidacy of Hugo Chávez. In October 2004, Gimenez was elected governor of Yaracuy, beating the incumbent anti-Chavez governor, Eduardo Lapi.

[edit] References

• http://www.yaracuy.gob.ve/gobernador.php

Current governors of states of Venezuela
Amazonas: Liborio Guarulla Anzoategui: Tarek Saab Apure: Jesus Aguilarte Aragua: Didalco Bolivar Barinas: Hugo de los Reyes Chávez Bolivar: Francisco Rangel	Carabobo: Luis Acosta Cojedes: Jhonny Yanez Delta Amacuro: Yelitza Santaella Falcon: Jesus Montilla Guarico: Eduardo Manuitt Lara: Luis Reyes	Merida: Florencio Porras Miranda: Diosdado Cabello Monagas: Jose Briceño Nueva Esparta: Morel Rodriguez Portuguesa: Antonia Muñoz Sucre: Ramon Martinez	Táchira: Roland Blanco Trujillo: Gilmer Viloria Vargas: Antonio Rodriguez Yaracuy: Carlos Gimenez Zulia: Manuel Rosales Caracas: Juan Barreto (Mayor)