Vicencio Scarano Spisso

He was elected as mayor of the San Diego Municipality in 2004 with 33.09% of the votes.^[1] In 2008 he was re-elected with 71.08% of the votes.^[2] He was re-elected with 75.24% of the votes in 2013.^[3]

Scarano accused the national government during February's^[timeframe?] demonstrations of excessive use of force against demonstrators.^[4] On 19 March 2014 the Supreme Court tried him and sentenced him to jail for ten and a half months for failing to comply with a court order to take down barricades in his municipality.^[5]

Scarano is the leader of the Cuentas Claras party, currently annexed to Mesa de la Unidad Democratica, the main opposition coalition of political parties in Venezuela.

• Political prisoners in Venezuela