Daniel Fernando Abugattás Majluf (born 14 April 1955 in
Arequipa
Arequipa (; Aymara and qu, Ariqipa) is a city and capital of province and the eponymous department of Peru. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru". It is the second most populated city ...
) is a
Peruvian businessman and politician belonging to the
Alliance for Progress. He was formerly a
Congressman
A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalen ...
representing the constituency of
Lima from 2006 to 2016 and formerly belonged to the
Peruvian Nationalist Party.
Early life and education
Daniel Abugattás was born on 14 April 1955 in
Arequipa
Arequipa (; Aymara and qu, Ariqipa) is a city and capital of province and the eponymous department of Peru. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru". It is the second most populated city ...
. Daniel Abugattás studied law at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic Church, being the oldest private ...
in Lima. Subsequently, he pursued a master program in economic law at the
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Xochimilco, Mexico, from 1980 to 1981. Moreover, in 1982, he took a specialization course in quality management at the Japanese
Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) in Osaka.
Career
From 1980 to 1994, he worked as a procurator for Fabrica Moderna S.A. in Lima. From 1994 to 2006, he was the general director of
Nielsen Peru.
Political career
In the
2006 general election, he was elected as a congressman on the joint
Union for Peru
Union for Peru ( es, Unión por el Perú) was a Peruvian political party founded by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, an ex- UN Secretary General, in 1994 to run for the Presidency of Peru in the 1995 general elections. Originally a social democratic pa ...
–
Peruvian Nationalist Party list, representing
Lima. After the breakup of the alliance following the 2006 elections, Abugattás decided to sit with the Nationalist bench. During the campaign, Abugattás was the spokesperson for Humala's candidacy for the presidency. However, after seriously insulting the nation's first lady,
Eliane Karp
Eliane Chantal Karp-Toledo is a Peruvian anthropology, anthropologist, former First Lady of Peru, and the wife of the ex-president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo. She specializes in the study of Andean civilizations, Andean Indigenous peoples, indigen ...
, he was removed from office and replaced by Carlos Tapia.
From 2007 to 2011, he was a member of the political commission of the Nationalist Party. He began his parliamentary work as president of the Commission for Production, Micro and Small Enterprises. Ollanta Humala entrusted him with the task of organizing his party during non-electoral times, achieving in less than a year to affiliate 32,000 militants and opening nationalist bases in 70% of the national territory (until 2008).
He received the confidence of the plenary session of Parliament to preside over the "Petroaudios" Investigative Commission, where he played an important role in clarifying such acts of corruption. From 2010 to 2011, Abugattás was the spokesman of the Nationalist bench in Congress. After
Ollanta Humala and his Nationalist-dominated
Peru Wins alliance won the
2011 general election, in which Abugattás was re-elected to his seat, For the annual 2011-2012 term, he was elected
President of the Congress. Abugattás has received various criticisms for the hiring that has been made in Congress, among these, that of former congresswoman
Nancy Obregón
Nancy Rufina Obregón Peralta (born 6 January 1970) is a Peruvian politician and a Congresswoman representing San Martín for the 2006–2011 term. Obregón belongs to the Union for Peru party.
Obregón is affiliated with the cocalero movement. ...
as a citizen participation advisor. In March 2016, he resigned from the Nationalist Party, as a result of the arbitrary and undemocratic decision of its leadership chaired by Mrs. Nadine Heredia (wife of President Ollanta Humala), leaving without a party and with an uncertain political future for him. He would later join the
Alliance for Progress of Cesar Acuña and attempted to run for a seat in Congress in the
2021 elections
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representing
Lima but he was not elected.
References
External links
Official Congressional Site (2006–2011 term)Congressman's File (2011–2016 term)Resume on the National Jury of Elections (JNE) site
1955 births
Living people
Peruvian people of Arab descent
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni
20th-century Peruvian lawyers
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
Peruvian Nationalist Party politicians
Presidents of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
Peruvian businesspeople
People from Arequipa
People from Arequipa Region
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Alliance for Progress (Peru) politicians