Eduardo Manuitt Carpio (born 28 July 1950) is a
Venezuela
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n politician. He was the co-founder of the party
La Causa Radical
The Radical Cause ( es, La Causa Radical, LCR), stylized as La Causa Я, is a minor left-wing political party in Venezuela, and today part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Nicolás Maduro.
At its peak in the early 1990s, the party came ...
and represented it in the Venezuelan Congress. When La Causa split in the late 1990s, he became a leader of the
Patria Para Todos
Fatherland for All (''Patria Para Todos'', PPT) is a leftist political party in Venezuela. It was founded on September 27, 1997 by members of The Radical Cause party led by Pablo Medina, Aristóbulo Istúriz and Alí Rodríguez Araque. In 199 ...
(PPT) faction, and represented it in Congress. He was the Governor of
Guárico state from 1999 to 2008, originally for the PPT, and later for the
PSUV.
Manuitt won the gubernatorial elections in 1998, 1999 (under the new
Constitution of Venezuela
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) and 2004 as a PPT candidate. In 2007 he joined the newly created
PSUV, but was subsequently expelled after supporting his daughter's PPT candidacy for governor, after she had failed in the PSUV primaries to be nominated as the PSUV candidate.
['']Venezuelanalysis.com
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Venezuela Issues Arrest Warrant for Ex-Governor Eduardo Manuitt
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In April 2009 he went into hiding after being charged with corruption allegedly committed while Governor.[ '' El Universal'', 24 April 2009]
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References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110710185148/http://noticias.eluniversal.com/2005/06/09/imp_pol_art_09106F.shtml
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Living people
Governors of Guárico
People from Guárico
Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela)
Radical Cause politicians
Fatherland for All politicians
United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians
1950 births