Zoila Lourdes Carmen Sandra Mendoza del Solar (born 7 January 1958) is a
Peru
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vian
business
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woman and
politician
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with the
Peruvian Aprista Party. She is the first
woman
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in
Peru
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's history to become a
Vice President of Peru, running as the Second Running mate of
Alan García
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (; 23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru
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in the
2006 election.
She was also elected as
Member of Congress
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representing
Arequipa
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,
where she had been elected as "regidora" in 2002. She served until the 2011 election when she lost her seat in the
2011 elections
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* Local electoral calendar 2011
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* 2011 United Nations Security Council election
Africa
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when she ran for re-election.
References
1958 births
Living people
Vice presidents of Peru
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
Peruvian women in business
Women vice presidents
21st-century Peruvian women politicians
21st-century Peruvian politicians
Women members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
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