- Enver Villamizar
Enver Villamizar is
general secretary of the Communist Youth Union of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), the youth wing of theCommunist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) . He is named afterEnver Hoxha , the formerAlbania n head of state. Villamizar has campaigned for public office at the federal and provincial levels.Villamizar was elected president of the
University of Windsor Students’ Alliance in2001 and2002 . He represented 10,000 undergraduate students in his capacity as president, and graduated from Windsor with an HonoursBachelor of Science degree in Biology.Villamizar was twenty-six years old at the time of the 2003 provincial election, and stood for office on a youth-oriented platform. He served as Southwestern Ontario organizer for the CPC-ML in the 2004 federal election, and was active in the
anti-globalization movement [http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2004/D34048.htm] . In the 2006 federal election, he is the party's candidate inWindsor West .He was a speaker for the World Festival of Youth and Students in the summer of 2005. [http://www.opuswindsor.ca/content.asp?ID=430&RID=547&NavID=2]
His electoral record is as follows:
*1999 Ontario provincial election, Essex, 307 votes, fourth out of four candidates. The winner was
Bruce Crozier of theOntario Liberal Party . Villamizar appeared on the ballot as an independent candidate, as the Marxist-Leninist party was not registered withElections Ontario .
*2000 Canadian federal election,Windsor West , 229 votes, sixth out of six candidates (winner:Herb Gray , Liberal)
*2003 Ontario provincial election,Windsor West 386 votes (1.10%), fifth out of five candidates. The winner wasSandra Pupatello of the Ontario Liberal Party. Villamizar ran as an "Independent Renewal" candidate, and appeared on the ballot as an independent.
*2004 Canadian federal election, Windsor West, 134 votes, fifth out of five candidates (winner:Brian Masse ,New Democratic Party )
*2006 Canadian federal election, Windsor West, 108 votes (0.23%), seventh out of seven candidates (winner:Brian Masse ,New Democratic Party
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