Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde (born 6 June 1949, in
Lima), is a
Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the
Popular Action and a former
Congressman
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representing
Lima between 2006 and 2019. He was president of the Popular Action from 2004 to 2009.
Early life and education
Víctor Andrés García descends from a family that has been linked to Peruvian politics for a long time. His great-grandfather General
Pedro Diez Canseco
Pedro Diez Canseco Corbacho (January 31, 1815 in Arequipa, Peru – April 3, 1893 in Chorrillos, Peru) was a Peruvian soldier and politician who served as President of Peru
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was three times interim President of Peru in the 1860s. His grandfather, the influential thinker, writer and diplomat
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco (15 December 1883 – 14 December 1966) was a Peruvian diplomat, politician, philosopher and scholar. He chaired the 14th Session and the 4th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly ...
was
President of the United Nations General Assembly
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Election
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from 1959 to 1960 and his uncle
Fernando Belaúnde Terry was the founder of the
Popular Action and twice democratically elected President (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). His brother,
José Antonio García Belaúnde
José Antonio García Belaunde is a Peruvian career diplomat, who served as Foreign Minister during the Second Presidency of Alan Garcia from 2006 to 2011, making him the only Foreign Affairs Minister to serve a complete term. On August 2, 20 ...
has served as foreign minister during the
second administration of Alan García. His older brother, Domingo García Belaúnde, is also a prominent lawyer and constitutionalist, but not a politician.
After graduating from the
Peruvian Naval School
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, García studied law at the
University of Valladolid in Spain and the prestigious
National University of San Marcos. He received his
Licence
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in 1975.
Political career
During his uncle's presidency, García was the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers.
Deputy
In the
1985 general election, García was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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on his uncle's
Popular Action (AP) list for a five-year term, representing the
Lima Region. Parallel, he was secretary of the AP-led cabinet. In the
1990 general election, he was re-elected for a second term, representing the liberal-conservative
FREDEMO
Democratic Front ( es, Frente Democrático), also known as FREDEMO, was a center-right economically liberal and social conservative political alliance in Peru founded in 1988 by Liberty Movement, Popular Action and Christian People's Party. ...
-coalition comprising his Popular Action, the
Christian People's Party and the
Liberty Movement
Liberty Movement () was a classical liberal political party in Peru. It was founded in 1987 by people who opposed decrees such as the nationalization of the banking sector in 1986 under the first presidency of Alan García. Instead it advocated ...
and served until authoritarian president
Alberto Fujimori dissolved the Congress in a
self-coup in 1992.
Presidential candidate (2000)
At the end of the Fujimori dictatorship, Víctor García was AP's presidential candidate for the
2000 general election without considerable success, placing ninth with 0.4% of the vote and Fujimori was subsequently re-elected in the runoff that was marred by electoral fraud.
Congressman
In the
2006 general election, García Belaúnde was elected
Congressman
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representing
Lima for the 2006–2011 term on the
Center Front
The Centre Front (Spanish: ''Frente de Centro,'' FC), was a Peruvian political coalition formed by the parties Acción Popular (AP), Somos Perú (PDSP) and Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes (CNI) for the 2006 national election. Its leade ...
ticket, assembled by AP,
We Are Peru
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and
National Coordinator of Independents party. In Congress, he was the speaker of the ''Parliamentary Alliance'', a joint group of Center Front,
Possible Peru
Possible Peru ( es, Perú Posible) was a Peruvian political party. It was founded in 1994 by Alejandro Toledo with the original name of Possible Country ( es, País Posible).
History
Possible Peru has its roots in an earlier political party, P ...
and, initially, the
National Restoration Party lawmakers. In the
2011 general election, he was re-elected on the list of the
Possible Peru Alliance
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, where his Popular Action party has now integrated. He was again re-elected in the
2016 general election and left office in 2019 following to the
dissolution of the Congress by
Martín Vizcarra. In 2017, he questioned the addendum to the Chinchero airport contract, as, in his opinion, it was harmful to the interests of the State. In this regard, he had a strong controversy with the then Vice President and Minister of Transport and Communications
Martín Vizcarra, whom he described as a "sell-out country". In 2018, he ran for the presidency of Congress, leading a multiparty alliance that wanted to curb the hegemony of Fujimorism in the Board of Directors, but lost with a difference of 14 votes to
Daniel Salaverry
Daniel Enrique Salaverry Villa (born 7 August 1972) is a Peruvian architect, businessman and politician. Between 2016 and 2019, he served in Congress representing the Department of La Libertad. Elected to Congress under the Fujimorist Popula ...
.
Party politics
From 2002 to 2003 he was vice president, of the Popular Action party and from January 2004 to May 2009 he became the president of the Popular Action party.
References
External links
Official Congressional SiteResume on the National Electoral Committee (JNE) site
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1949 births
Living people
Popular Action (Peru) politicians
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
National University of San Marcos alumni
20th-century Peruvian lawyers
People from Lima
Candidates for President of Peru
Center Front politicians