page_title: Henrique Capriles
section_title: 2013 presidential election
hierarchical_section_title: Henrique Capriles / Political career / 2013 presidential election
caption_attribution_description: English: Venezuelan politician and presidential candidate Henrique Capriles in Cumaná, Venezuela, prior to the 2013 presidential elections.
context_page_description: Henrique Capriles Radonski is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, who served as the 36th Governor of Miranda from 2008–2017.
  Born in Caracas on 11 July 1972, 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. He secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1998 parliamentary elections, under the Christian Democratic Party. 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 Primero Justicia, alongside politicians Julio Borges and Leopoldo Lopez, and ran successfully for the mayorship of the Baruta municipality in the regional elections held in July 2000, and later for the governorship of the Miranda state in 2008. Capriles became the opposition candidate at the 2012 and 2013 presidential elections, and faced then-President Hugo Chávez and Vice President Nicolás Maduro respectively.
context_section_description: Capriles faced interim president Nicolás Maduro in a presidential election on 14 April 2013. Voters gave Maduro—who had assumed the role of acting president since Chávez's death—a narrow victory over Capriles. Capriles rejected the results of the election, claiming election irregularities and calling for a full audit of the election results. Maduro said he would accept an audit of the election results; the election board did not agree to opposition demands for a total recount.
  The Supreme Court of Justice denied Capriles' appeal on 7 August 2013.
caption: Henrique Capriles in Cumaná, Venezuela, prior to the 2013 presidential elections.
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