1. Henrique Capriles secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1998 parliamentary elections, under the Christian Democratic Party.
22 Facts About Henrique Capriles
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Henrique Capriles served as vice president of the Congress and president of the Chamber of Deputies until their dissolution by the Constituent Assembly in August 1999.
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Between both presidential campaigns, Henrique Capriles successfully secured his re-election as Governor of Miranda during the 2012 regional elections.
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On 5 April 2017, Henrique Capriles was formally banned for 15 years from political activity accused by the Venezuelan government of alleged "administrative irregularities" which had occurred under his governorship.
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Henrique Capriles ceased to be the Governor of Miranda in October after the 2017 regional elections, and subsequently declared his intent to leave the Democratic Unity Roundtable in protest against what he considered its legitimizing the Maduro government.
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Henrique Capriles Radonski was born in Caracas on 11 July 1972.
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Henrique Capriles received his degree in 1994, and then continued studies at the Central University of Venezuela.
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Henrique Capriles first ventured into politics between 1995 and 1998, when he aided his cousin, deputy Armando Henrique Capriles, in the writing of laws for the Bicameral Commission of Energy of the then-existing Congress of the Republic.
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That year, Henrique Capriles founded the political party Primero Justicia, alongside politicians Julio Borges and Leopoldo Lopez, although the entity had already existed as a civil association since 1992.
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Henrique Capriles did not run for a seat at the newly created Assembly; however, he and Leopoldo Lopez pursued the mayoralties of the Baruta and Chacao municipalities, respectively, at the regional elections held in July 2000.
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In March 2004, Danilo Anderson publicly declared that Henrique Capriles would be arrested; the warrant was annulled in early April.
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In May 2004, Henrique Capriles was arrested on the orders of Anderson, on the grounds that Henrique Capriles might flee the country; he was released on probation in September, pending his trial.
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In December 2006, Henrique Capriles was acquitted of the charge of fomenting violence in the siege of the Cuban embassy during the coup attempt, but five months later, his acquittal was annulled by the court of appeal, and the case was re-opened in October 2008.
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Henrique Capriles passed on the governorship of the state of Miranda to the Secretary General of Miranda, Adriana D'Elia, on 6 June 2012, in compliance with Venezuelan law which states an incumbent governor cannot run for the presidency of the nation.
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Henrique Capriles was elected again on 16 December 2012, beating former Vice President Elias Jaua.
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On 8 April 2017, the campaign headquarters for Henrique Capriles was attacked with tear gas and fires ignited inside of the building, destroying it.
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The order by the Comptroller General of Venezuela, if valid, would prevent Henrique Capriles from running in the 2018 presidential election.
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Henrique Capriles was selected in primaries held in February 2012 as the opposition candidate against Hugo Chavez in the presidential elections to be held in October 2012; he won the opposition primaries with 1,900,528 votes of the 3,059,024 votes cast.
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In February 2012, Henrique Capriles was subjected to attacks by state-run media sources.
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On 7 October 2012, Henrique Capriles lost the election to then-President Hugo Chavez.
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Henrique Capriles faced interim president Nicolas Maduro in a presidential election on 14 April 2013.
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Sofia Del Valle Henrique Capriles Valle was born on April 6,2020.