Enver Villamizar
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Enver Villamizar is general secretary of the Communist Youth Union of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), the youth wing of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). He is named after Enver Hoxha, the former Albanian head of state. Villamizar has campaigned for public office at the federal and provincial levels.
Villamizar was elected president of the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance in 2001 and 2002. He represented 10,000 undergraduate students in his capacity as president, and graduated from Windsor with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.
Villamizar was twenty-six years old at the time of the 2003 provincial election, and stood for office on a youth-oriented platform. He served as Southwestern Ontario organizer for the CPC-ML in the 2004 federal election, and was active in the anti-globalization movement[1]. In the 2006 federal election, he is the party's candidate in Windsor West.
He was a speaker for the World Festival of Youth and Students in the summer of 2005.[2]
His electoral record is as follows:
- 1999 Ontario provincial election, Essex, 307 votes, fourth out of four candidates. The winner was Bruce Crozier of the Ontario Liberal Party. Villamizar appeared on the ballot as an independent candidate, as the Marxist-Leninist party was not registered with Elections Ontario.
- 2000 Canadian federal election, Windsor West, 229 votes, sixth out of six candidates (winner: Herb Gray, Liberal)
- 2003 Ontario provincial election, Windsor West 386 votes (1.10%), fifth out of five candidates. The winner was Sandra Pupatello of the Ontario Liberal Party. Villamizar ran as an "Independent Renewal" candidate, and appeared on the ballot as an independent.
- 2004 Canadian federal election, Windsor West, 134 votes, fifth out of five candidates (winner: Brian Masse, New Democratic Party)
- 2006 Canadian federal election, Windsor West, 108 votes (0.23%), seventh out of seven candidates (winner: Brian Masse, New Democratic Party)
