Martín Amado Rivas Texeira (born 22 January 1969) is a

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politician and lawyer. He was elected as a Congressman of the Republic of Peru for the 2011–2016 period, representing the Lambayeque Department under the

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-dominated

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ticket. He has been serving in Congress since March 2010 as the replacement for the disqualified

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. Rivas belongs to the

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Early life and education

Rivas was born in

Chiclayo Chiclayo (; qu, Chiklayu) is the principal city of the Lambayeque region in northern Peru. It is located inland from the Pacific coast and from the nation's capital, Lima. Founded by Spanish explorers as "Santa María de los Valles de Chiclay ...

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in 1969. From 1987 and 1993 he studied law at the San Martín de Porres University in

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. From 1988 and 2000 he completed a master's degree in criminal sciences at the Pedro Ruiz Gallo National University in Chiclayo and, between 2003 and 2005, he received a doctorate in law and political science from the same university.

Political career

Early political career

Rivas first entered politics in 1998 for the local municipal elections of that year when he ran as a candidate for councilor of the province of Lambayeque, but he was not elected. In the 2006 general elections, he ran for

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in Lambayeque on the joint

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ticket but once again, he was unsuccessful. In the regional elections of the same year, he was a candidate of the

for the regional presidency of Lambayeque, but he lost to then-Governor

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of the

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. In the 2011 general elections, he was elected as a congressman for Lambayeque on the ticket for the

political alliance.

Congressional career

Rivas was summoned to the Congress in March 2010 as an replacement for the disqualified

, to complete the latter's 2006-2011 parliamentary term. After being elected for a full term for the 2011-2016 parliamentary period, he participated in the formulation of 314 bills, of which 55 were promulgated as laws of the republic. He would be elected to a full-term in the 2011 general elections, representing the Lambayeque Department under the Nationalist-dominated

ticket.

Post-congressional career

In 2020, Rivas announced that he would once again be running for a seat in Congress, under the Peruvian Nationalist Party running in the Lambayeque Department in the upcoming 2021 general election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivas Texeira, Martin 1969 births Living people Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Peruvian Nationalist Party politicians Union for Peru politicians University of San Martín de Porres alumni 21st-century Peruvian lawyers 21st-century Peruvian physicians People from Chiclayo People from Lambayeque Region