Luz Salgado

Luz Salgado
Luz Salgado Rubianes
President of Congress
In office
26 July 2016 – 26 July 2017
Vice President1st Vice President
Rosa Bartra
2nd Vice President
Richard Acuña
3rd Vice President
Elías Rodríguez
Luciana León
Preceded byLuis Iberico Núñez
Succeeded byLuis Galarreta
In office
22 November 2000 – 30 November 2000
Acting
Preceded byValentín Paniagua
Succeeded byFrancisco Tudela
In office
13 November 2000 – 16 November 2000
Acting
Preceded byMartha Hildebrandt
Succeeded byValentín Paniagua
Member of Congress
In office
26 July 2011 – 16 March 2020
ConstituencyLima
In office
26 July 2001 – 23 August 2001
ConstituencyLima
In office
26 July 1995 – 26 July 2001
ConstituencyNational
Member of the Democratic Constituent Congress
In office
26 November 1992 – 26 July 1995
ConstituencyNational
Personal details
Born (1949-07-03) 3 July 1949 (age 75)
Lima, Peru
Nationality Peruvian
Political partyFuerza Popular
Cambio 90New Majority (until 2011)
SpouseDomingo Paredes Santolalla
Residence(s)Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru
WebsiteOfficial Site

Luz Filomena Salgado Rubianes de Paredes (born 3 July 1949) is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and journalist who served as President of the Congress thrice, from 2016 to 2017 as a full-term and twice briefly in 2000 in an acting capacity.

Education and professional career

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Luz Salgado studied communication sciences at the Universidad San Martín de Porres. She studied additionally for a master's degree in the Center for Higher National Studies.

Political career

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Writing the Peruvian Constitution

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In aftermath of Alberto Fujimori's self-coup on April 5, 1992, Luz Salgado was elected as a member of the Democratic Constitutional Congress, which wrote a new constitution during the Peruvian Constitutional Crisis of 1992. During this period she worked closely with de facto Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos.

Congresswoman and Party politics

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In the 1990 elections, Salgado ran for deputy for the Lima constituency under the Cambio 90 party, but she was not elected. Five years later in the 1995 elections, Salgado was elected to Congress under the Cambio 90-New Majority list. In the 2000 elections, she was re-elected on the Peru 2000 list and again in the 2001 elections under the Cambio 90-New Majority list but in August 2001, she was suspended from Congress.

In the 2011 general election, after a ten-year absence, she was elected to the Congress on the Fuerza 2011 list, representing Lima for the 2011–2016 term and in the 2016 elections on the Fuerza Popular list, for the 2016–2021 term, but her term was cut short by the dissolution of Congress by Martín Vizcarra in September 2019. At the time of her retirement, Salgado held the fifth position in seniority in the Congress of the Republic, with 17 years as a member of Congress in six non-consecutive terms.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Cruz, Yohel (2018-12-10). "Referéndum 2018 | Hasta dos décadas: Los congresistas que tienen más años en el Parlamento". RPP (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-06-01.
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