Julio Borges
8th President of the National Assembly
In office
5 January 2017 – 5 January 2018
Preceded byHenry Ramos Allup
Succeeded byOmar Barboza
Personal details
Born
Julio Andrés Borges Junyent

(1969-10-22) October 22, 1969
Caracas, Venezuela
Political partyJustice First
Other political
affiliations		Democratic Unity Roundtable
Alma materAndrés Bello Catholic University
Boston College
University of Oxford

Julio Andrés Borges Junyent (born 22 October 1969, in Caracas[1]) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s he had a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on Radio Caracas Televisión. He co-founded the party Primero Justicia in 2000 together with Henrique Capriles Radonski and Leopoldo Lopez.[2]

Political career

Borges meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. in June 2021.

In the 2000 parliamentary elections, Borges was elected to the National Assembly, representing Primero Justicia and Miranda State until 2005. Primero Justicia participated in the opposition boycott of the 2005 elections, but Borges was elected again in the parliamentary elections of 2010.

Borges ran for president in the opposition primaries for the Venezuelan presidential elections of 2006, but on August 9, 2006 dropped out to support Manuel Rosales, former governor of Zulia State.[3] Borges was involved in an incident in the National Assembly in April 2013, when violence broke out between PSUV and opposition legislators following the 2013 presidential election. According to Borges, the members of PSUV stood up at the beginning of the assembly and rushed the opposition.[4]

Education

Borges studied law at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, graduating in 1992, and got a master's degree in philosophy at Boston College (1994) and public policy at the University of Oxford (1996).[1][2] He is married, and has four children.[1]

Arrest warrant

In 2020, the Supreme Court of Justice ordered his arrest for allegedly participating in the 2018 Caracas Attack against Nicolás Maduro. On July 13, 2020, the Attorney General's Office of the Republic issued an arrest warrant for the alleged crimes of treason,[5] usurpation of functions and association to commit crimes, and on January 16, 2023, the attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, announces that the Public Ministry has requested a third arrest warrant against Borges, this time for his participation in the coup attempt of April 30, 2019.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 (in Spanish) primicias24.com, 20 July 2011, Dirigente político PJ Julio Borges: “Nosotros tenemos con qué ser el mejor país del mundo”
  2. 1 2 (in Spanish) Nunez Munoz, Ingrid and Pineda Moran, Nury (2003), "Nuevos Partidos, Nuevos Liderazgos: Primero Justicia", Cuestiones Politicas, 30, Jan-Jun 2003, pp45-74
  3. ↑ El Universal, 11 August 2006, Manuel Rosales is the single opposition candidate
  4. ↑ "William Dávila y Julio Borges fueron agredidos en la AN: "Sin mediar palabras nos golpearon"". Noticias 24. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/news/politics/New-arrest-warrant-issued-against-Borges-for-treason/
  6. ↑ "Venezuela: Prosecutor's Office issues new arrest warrant for opposition leader Julio Borges". YouTube.
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