Víctor Isla Rojas (born 7 August 1968) is a

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vian lawyer, businessman and politician. He was a former

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representing the

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for two terms, from 2006 to 2016 and was President of the Congress between 2012 and 2013. Before he became a congressman, he was the Vice Governor of Loreto serving between 2003 and 2006 and served as Provincial Councillor of Alto Amazonas.

Early life, education and career

He was born in the district of Santa Cruz in the province of Alto Amazonas, Department of Loreto, Peru, on August 7, 1968, the son of Víctor Isla del Águila and Elena Rojas. He attended his primary and secondary studies in the city of Yurimaguas. From 1986 to 1992, Víctor Isla studied law and political science at the

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. From 1994 to 2002 he worked as an independent lawyer and outside adviser.

Political career

Early political career

In the 1998 municipal elections, he was elected provincial councilor in his home province of Alto Amazonas under the

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party of Lima’s charismatic Mayor Alberto Andrade. In the 2002 regional elections, he was elected Vice Governor of the

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Congressman

In the 2006 election, he was elected

on the joint

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list, representing the

for the 2006–2011 term and after the elections, the alliance split and Isla sat on the Nationalist bench in Congress. Isla later returned to his alma mater to take a postgraduate course in constitutional and human rights laws from 2008 to 2009. In the 2011 election, he was reelected for the 2011–2016 term, this time on the Nationalist-dominated

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list. He was President of the Congress in 2012 for the annual 2012-2013 term.

Post-congressional career

In the 2018 regional elections, he ran for Regional Governor of Loreto under the newly established

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party, but was not elected, receiving only 1.6% of the vote in the election.

Controversies

Isla has been linked to the government of

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, and to the Casa del Alba project in Peru. In that sense, even the political partner of the then Peruvian president

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, former Peruvian president

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, expressed doubts about his candidacy for the presidency of the Congress. Isla was finally elected president of the congress for the period 2012-2013. Likewise, Isla was elected in 2006 as a congressman for Loreto; However, he did not gain prominence until it was revealed that he hired Martín Reátegui, a former member of the Shining Path, as an advisor.

References

External links

Official Congressional Site (2006-2011 term)Congressional site 2011-2016 termResume on the National Jury of Elections (JNE) site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Isla, Victor Living people 1968 births We Are Peru politicians 21st-century Peruvian politicians Union for Peru politicians Peruvian Nationalist Party politicians Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Presidents of the Congress of the Republic of Peru 20th-century Peruvian lawyers National University of San Marcos alumni People from Loreto Region