Reinaldo Quijada

Reinaldo José Quijada Cervoni (born November 21, 1959) is a Venezuelan engineer and politician. He was a candidate in the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, in which he received 36,132 votes.[1]

Reinaldo Quijada
Personal details
BornNovember 21, 1959
Geneva, Switzerland
NationalityVenezuela
Political partyUPP89
ParentsManuel Quijada
Evelina Cervoni
OccupationElectronics engineer

Biography

He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, when his father Manuel Quijada was representative of Venezuela at the UN. He was born in the Venezuelan embassy in Switzerland.

Politics

In February 1992, when Hugo Chávez's coup d'état was carried out against Carlos Andrés Pérez, he openly supported it. That same year, he founded with other fellow activists, the Patriotic Front, which supported socialist ideas within the nation. In 2008, he became a member of the PSUV. That same year he was a candidate for the governorship of Miranda State.[2]

In 2013 , after Chávez's death, the PSUV underwent a series of changes that led Quijada, together with other members of the People's Electoral Movement, to abandon the idea of participating in the government of Nicolás Maduro, and in 2015 he founded the UPP89 party.[3][4][5]

On February 21, 2018, he announced his candidacy in the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election under his UPP89 party, with the main platform of the campaign being to support a revolutionary process that Nicolás Maduro had abandoned.[6][7] The campaign was registered with Venezuela's National Electoral Council on February 27.[8] He came in fourth place with 36,132 votes.[1]

References
  1. "Divulgación Electoral 2018". cne.gov.ve. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. Castillo, Jean. "Estos son los contrincantes de Nicolás Maduro para las presidenciales | YVKE Mundial". www.radiomundial.com.ve (in Spanish). Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  3. "UPP 89: nuevo partido político | Últimas Noticias". Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). May 7, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  4. "Venezuelan elections: Who is Maduro up against this year?". euronews. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  5. "Latin American Herald Tribune – Left Challenger Calls for Venezuelas Reconstruction". Latin America Herald Tribune. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  6. Dia, Noticia al (February 21, 2018). "Reinaldo Quijada anunció candidatura a las presidenciales". noticiaaldia.com | Noticias de Maracaibo Sucesos del Zulia (in Spanish). Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  7. "Reinaldo Quijada es la competencia "revolucionaria" a Nicolás Maduro". Tal Cual (in Spanish). Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  8. Globovision. "Reinaldo Quijada presentó su candidatura a la Presidencia por el partido UPP89". Globovisión (in Spanish). Retrieved May 18, 2018.
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