José Alejandro Vega Antonio (born 18 November 1957) is a

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vian politician and 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

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since 2020. He was previously congressman for the 2006-2011 term representing

. He was First Vice President of the Congress between 2006 and 2007 under the leadership of

Mercedes Cabanillas Mercedes Cabanillas Bustamante (born May 22, 1947) is a Peruvian educator and politician. A prominent member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, she served as Minister of Education in the first presidency of Alan García, making her the first woman to ...

. In the 2020 snap parliamentary election, after a nine-year absence, he was once again elected as Congressman representing the same constituency to complete the 2016-2021 term that was interrupted following to the dissolution of the Congress. Vega belongs to the

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party in which, he is the party's Secretary General. He is running for President in the

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Early life and career

Vega was born in Lima, on November 18, 1957. He worked at Banco Comercial (1979-1984), as well as at Banco Popular (1985-1992). He was a union leader of the Federation of Bank Employees of Peru (1984-1991), as well as a delegate of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru - CGTP (1985-1990).

Political career

In 1994, he co-founded the

party, along with

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (; ; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as Prime Mini ...

. In said party, he held the positions of Secretary General in the Limeño District of San Juan de Lurigancho (1995-1999), and later for all Metropolitan Lima (1999-2001), integrating the National Steering Committee of UPP. Between 2001 and 2003 he was Secretary General of the Departmental Committee of Lima. In 2004, he was elected National General Secretary of UPP, addressing as such subsequently the Electoral Campaign of 2006, in alliance with the nascent

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(PNP) of

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, who would be the presidential candidate.

Congressman

In the

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, he was elected

representing

under the

ticket the 2006-2011 term representing

. During the Congressional leadership of

, Vega was the First Vice President of the Congress between 2006 and 2007. In the

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, Vega failed to attain re-election when he ran for re-election under the

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but was not elected. In the 2020 snap parliamentary election, after a nine-year absence, he was once again elected as Congressman representing the same constituency to complete the 2016-2021 term that was interrupted following to the dissolution of the Congress. During his parliamentary work, Vega was in favor of the removal of former president

Martín Vizcarra Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo (; born 22 March 1963) is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014), First Vice Pre ...

during the two processes that took place for it, the second of which ended up removing the former president from power. The congressman supported the motion being one of the 105 parliamentarians who voted in favor of the removal of President Martín Vizcarra.

2021 elections

Vega was nominated by his party for the Presidency for the

. However, he was disqualified on 29 December 2020, because of incomplete information regarding income on the nominees registration form, but he was reinstated on 6 February 2021.

References

External links

Official Congressional Site
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