Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski maintained his lead over President Hugo Chavez in the latest survey from.
With the Venezuelan elections now looming, and with Chavez's approval ratings stubbornly hovering around the 57% mark, it would seem that..
Henrique Capriles
Venezuelan politician (born 1972)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Capriles and the second or maternal family name is Radonski.
Henrique Capriles Radonski (Spanish pronunciation:[enˈrikekaˈpɾilesraˈðonski]; born 11 July 1972) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, who served as the 36th Governor of Miranda from 2008 to 2017.
Born in Caracas, he received a degree in law from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and later in tax law from the Central University of Venezuela. He first ventured into politics at age 26, when he became the youngest member ever elected to the Venezuelan parliament.
Longstanding front-runner Henrique Capriles Radonski won the contest by a convincing margin, taking 62 percent of the vote to Pablo Perez's 29 percent.He secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1998 parliamentary elections, under the Christian Democratic Party (Copei). He served as vice president of the Congress and president of the Chamber of Deputies until their dissolution by the Constituent Assembly in August 1999.
In 2000, he co-founded the political party