Elías Nicolás Rodríguez Zavaleta (born 22 July 1974) is a

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vian lawyer and politician who served in

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representing

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from 2006 until the dissolution of Congress by president

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in 2019. A former member of the

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, Rodríguez was expelled from the party in October 2021 for alleged treason as he served as Institutional General Secretary and simultaneously led an independent regional movement. At the 2022 regional elections, Rodríguez ran for governor of

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under the ''Trabajo Más Trabajo'' regional movement, placing second and losing to

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from

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Biography

He completed his secondary studies at the José Faustino Sánchez Carrión School, and graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Antenor Orrego University of Trujillo.

Career

Early political career

From 1990 to 1991, as a student of the

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, Elías Rodríguez was the Secretary of Culture of the Aprista Party's youth wing (

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) on a regional level. Since 1996 he holds a

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in law. From 1998 to 2002 he worked as an external legal advisor to the Trujillo provincial municipality. In the

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, he ran for a seat in the

under the

, but he was not elected. Two years later, in the 2002 municipal elections, Rodríguez ran for a seat in the Provincial Council of Trujillo, and was elected provincial councillor for a four-year term. He served as provincial councillor until he was elected Congressman in the 2006 elections.

Peruvian Congress

In the 2006 election, he was elected

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representing La Libertad for the 2006–2011 term under the

. In the 2011 election, he was re-elected for another five-year term. In the 2016 election, he was re-elected for another five-year term under the Popular Alliance, which consisted of the

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and VP, but his term was cut short by the dissolution of Congress by President

in September 2019.

Partisan controversy and regional politics

From 2017 to 2021, Rodríguez served as the Institutional Secretary General of the Peruvian Aprista Party until his expulsion from the party on 24 October 2021 for alleged treason as he led in parallel the ''Trabajo Más Trabajo'' (Work More Work) regional movement in order to run for governor at the 2022 regional elections. At the gubernatorial election held on 2 October 2022, Rodríguez placed second behind former governor and

leader

References

External links

Official Congressional SiteResume on the National Electoral Committee's site (JNE) site
Living people American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru 1974 births People from Santiago de Chuco Province People from La Libertad Region 20th-century Peruvian lawyers {{Peru-politician-stub