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Ángel Javier Velásquez Quesquén (born 12 March 1960) is a
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vian lawyer and politician. A prominent member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he has served in
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between 2001 and 2019, previously serving from 1995 to 2000. In
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's second presidency, Velásquez was sworn as the third
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of the administration, succeeding Yehude Simon in 2009. He resigned his post in 2010 with the intention to run for the Peruvian Aprista Party presidential nomination later that year. Although not selected as the nominee, he was part of the presidential ticket of Mercedes Aráoz in which he was the candidate for First Vice President until her withdrawal from the election in January 2011. In 2016, he was reelected for a fifth term in Congress, representing the
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under the Popular Alliance which consisted of the APRA and PPC.


Law career

In 1987, Velásquez graduated with a law degree from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo. Since that year, he has been a designate lecturer at the Higher Institute of Technology "República Federal de Alemania" in Chiclayo. From 1991 to 1992, he was head of the public register of the North Eastern region of Marañón. From 1997 to 2003 he additionally studied for a Master of Laws, focusing on Constitutional law at the
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. Velásquez was a lecturer (Professor) at the Private University Chiclayo in 2000/2001 and at the University of San Martín de Porres in 2006 and in 2007/2008, teaching constitutional law. Currently he is studying to obtain a Ph.D. in law from
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in
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.


Political career


Early political career

Javier Velásquez started his career in the social-democratic Peruvian Aprista Party, serving as Secretary General of the Party's base in Lambayeque from 1992 to 1994.


Congressman

In the 1995 elections, he was elected to the
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for his first five-year term, but failed to attain reelection in the 2000 elections. In the 2001 elections, after a brief one-year absence, he returned to Congress and was re-elected in the
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elections. From 1999 to 2004 he was vice-chair of the Political Commission on the Party. In June 2004 he presided the organizing committee for the XXII National Congress of the Party, at which he was elected to the national Political Steering Committee. He served as the President of the Congress from 2008 to 2009. From March 2010 to July 2017, he served as chairman of the party's Political Commission. He was reelected for a fifth term in Congress at the
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under the Popular Alliance. His final tenure in office ended with the dissolution of Congress by
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. He served a total of 23 years in Congress.


Congress President

Thanks to his outstanding parliamentary work, Congressman Velásquez was entrusted by his party to run for the presidency of Congress for the annual period of sessions 2008 - 2009, competing with the opposition Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde of the Parliamentary Alliance, whom he won with a vote of 66 votes to 46 for Belaunde, electing him head of the National Congress. The board of directors chaired by Velásquez was made up of Alejandro Aguinaga —First Vice President (Lambayeque) - Álvaro Gutiérrez —Second Vice President (Arequipa) - and Fabiola Morales (Piura), this was a purely provincial list, after so many years directed by Lima parliamentarians and that many of the objectives proposed by this parliamentary conformation was to achieve a reinforcement of the decentralization process in Peru so many times put in the background by centralism. As President of Parliament, Velásquez held decentralized sessions in different cities of the country in order to consolidate the decentralization process, taking the seat of parliament to the interior of the country.


Premiership

On 11 July 2009, President
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named him as prime minister during the controversy surrounding indigenous clashes with the government when 34 people died. He was sworn in at 8:00 pm on 12 July 2009. The appointment of Velásquez, considered a party loyalist, was seen by pundits as an attempt by García to tighten his grip on power for his final term. It is considered a reversal after appointing the leftist Yehude Simon, Velásquez's predecessor. Velásquez is the third person to hold the office in nine months. Garcia, whose approval rating was 21 percent, also replaced the ministers of defense, justice, agriculture and the interior. He resigned his post in September 2010 with the intention to run for the Peruvian Aprista Party presidential nomination later that year. Although not selected as the nominee, he was part of the presidential ticket of Mercedes Aráoz in which he was the candidate for First Vice President until her withdrawal from the election in January 2011.


Party insider

Velásquez is considered a governing party insider, having served in Congress for 23 years. He is thought to be an adept negotiator with a powerful rhetoric in defense of his leader
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.


Electoral history


References


External links


Official Congressional SitePresentation on the Peruvian Aprista Party siteResume on the National Electoral Panel (JNE) site
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