Everything about Lourdes Flores totally explained
Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano is a
Peruvian politician and
lawyer. She currently leads the
Unidad Nacional (National Unity) alliance and the
Partido Popular Cristiano (Popular Christian Party or PPC) in
Peru, which is the most well-known right-of-center party of the country.
Biography
Lourdes Flores was born in
Lima on
7 October 1959. She studied at the
Colegio Reyna de Los Ángeles and the law school of the
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She pursued graduate studies in
Madrid, received a masters from the
Instituto de Empresa and a doctorate from the
Universidad Complutense. As an independent lawyer, Flores specialized in civil and business law. In
1992, Flores attended the
World Economic Forum in
Davos,
Switzerland. She later taught
commercial law at the
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the
University of Lima.
Political Life
At age 18, Flores joined the
Popular Christian Party, a conservative branch of the Christian Democracy movement founded in
1966. She was an assistant to Enrique Elías Larosa, who became
Minister of
Justice.
Flores was elected National Deputy from
Lima to the
Congress of the Republic in
1990 with more than 250 000 votes. During that election, the PPC formed part of the
FREDEMO front backing
Mario Vargas Llosa for president.
She opposed the
1992 "
auto-golpe" of
President of the Republic Alberto Fujimori, organizing congressional meetings in her home. She was elected to the
constituent congress later that year and re-elected to congress in
1995.
She denounced Fujimori's holding of
Japanese citizenship in
1997 and opposed the activities of his security chief,
Vladimiro Montesinos.
Candidate for President
In
2000, Lourdes Flores led the PPC in joining with the
Partido Renovación and the
Partido Solidaridad Nacional to form the
Unidad Nacional electoral alliance. She ran for president in
2001 on that ticket. For most of the campaign, she was second in the polls behind
Alejandro Toledo. However, she lost considerable ground after her father called Toledo a "
guanaco," a common racial slur used against indigenous people in Peru (Toledo is half-indigenous). She finished in third place by only a 1% margin behind Toledo and
Alan Garcia Perez.
Flores and Unidad Nacional stayed in opposition to the
Toledo government, while supporting some of his economic measures. She ran unsuccessfully in the 2006
presidential race which took place
9 April 2006. As in 2001, Garcia edged her out by a slim margin (0.5%) for the second run-off spot.
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