Patricia Elizabeth Donayre Pasquel (born 10 June 1971) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. She was her country's Minister of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) from 15 July to 10 November 2020, during the government of Martín Vizcarra.

Early life and education

Donayre was born in

Iquitos Iquitos (; ) is the capital city of Peru's Maynas Province and Loreto Region. It is the largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes, as well as the ninth-most populous city of Peru. Iquitos is the largest city in the world th ...

, Loreto on 10 June 1971, the daughter of congressman Jorge Donayre Lozano and Luz Pasquel. She completed her higher studies at the Women's University of the Sacred Heart, receiving her law degree (1993). She obtained a doctorate, in problems of parliamentarism, at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

, and a diploma in constitutional law and political science at the

Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies The Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (, CEPC), previously known as the Institute for Political Studies (), is an autonomous agency associated with the Ministry for the Presidency of Spain. Its mission is to analyze the internation ...

. She is also a Master in Public Management for Ibero-American Executives at ESAN -

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Political career

Congresswoman (2000-2001)

In the 2000 general elections, Donayre was elected Congresswoman of the Republic by the

Independent Moralizing Front The Independent Moralizing Front ( es, Frente Independiente Moralizador) was a Peruvian political party. At the legislative elections, 8 April 2001, the party won 11.0% of the popular vote and 11 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic ...

, with 15,106 votes, for the parliamentary period 2000–2005. During her work in the legislature, she came to exercise, for a few days, the 2nd Vice Presidency of the board of directors chaired by Francisco Tudela in 2000. She was also part of the opposition to the dictatorial government of

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. On 14 September of the same year, Donayre participated in the press conference led by Fernando Olivera where the Vladivideos were to be made public, where the then opposition congressman, Alberto Kouri, was seen receiving money from ex-adviser

Vladimiro Montesinos Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres (born 20 May 1945) is a former long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, National Intelligence Service (SIN), under President Alberto Fujimori. In the year 2000, the infamous "Vladi-videos" came ...

in exchange. to join the ranks of

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. In November of the same year, after the removal of Fujimori by Congress and the assumption of

Valentín Paniagua Valentín Toribio Demetrio Agustin Paniagua Corazao (23 September 1936 – 16 October 2006) was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as President of Peru from 2000 to 2001. Elected President of Congress on 16 November 2000, he a ...

to the interim presidency, her parliamentary position was reduced until 2001 when new elections were called. In those elections, Donayre tried to retain her seat by the same party, but she was not elected.

Candidate for the Regional President of Loreto in 2002

In the 2002 regional elections, Donayre ran for Regional President of Loreto for

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, but was unsuccessful. For the 2006 general elections, she tried again to run for Congress for Centre Front where she was unsuccessful and in the same way in the 2011 general elections where she was a candidate for

Alliance for the Great Change The Alliance for the Great Change—PPK ( es, Alianza por el Gran Cambio – PPK) was an electoral alliance in Peru formed for the 2011 general election to promote the presidential candidacy of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ("PPK"). Constituent Partie ...

but she was not elected either.

Congresswoman (2016-2019)

In the 2016 general elections, Donayre was invited by

Popular Force People's Force ( es, Fuerza Popular, FP), known as Force 2011 ( es, Fuerza 2011, links=no) until 2012, is a right-wing populist and Fujimorist political party in Peru. The party is led by Keiko Fujimori, former congresswoman and daughter of form ...

to run for Congress and was elected, obtaining 26,543 votes for the 2016-2021 parliamentary period.

References

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