Justice First

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Primero Justicia




Leader	Julio Borges

Founded	1992
Headquarters	Caracas

Political ideology	Centre-right, liberal
International affiliation

Website	Official site

Justice First (Primero Justicia) is a political party in Venezuela. It claims to offer an alternative to the government of Hugo Chávez.

[edit] History

Primero Justicia was created in 1992 as a Civil Association by a group of university students (under the leadership of Alirio Abreu Burelli) who were concerned about what they saw as a deterioration of judicial power in the country and joined their efforts to contribute to the reform of Venezuela's legal system. Abreu Burelli was magistrate of the federal Supreme Court of Justice and Vice president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS). The association entered the political arena as a result of the 1999 Constitutional Convention, during which they presented a draft for the country's new constitution.

Following the July 30, 2000 legislative elections, five members of Primero Justicia were elected as deputies to the National Assembly (note: Primero Justicia boycotted the December 4, 2005 legislative elections, so the following people are no longer deputies in the National Assembly): Carlos Eduardo Ocariz Guerra, Gerardo Alberto Blyde Pérez, Julio Andrés Borges Junyent, Ramón José Medina Simancas and Liliana de los Ángeles Hernández Soto.

This political movement's presidential candidate for the 2006 presidential elections was former congressman Julio Borges. He dropped out of the race after both he and Primero Justicia decided to support Manuel Rosales, the current governor of Zulia, for the presidency.