Luz Filomena Salgado Rubianes de Paredes (born 3 July 1949) is a Peruvian

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politician and

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who served as President of the Congress thrice, from 2016 to 2017 as a full-term and twice briefly in 2000 in an acting capacity.

Education and professional career

Luz Salgado studied communication sciences at the Universidad San Martín de Porres. She studied additionally for a master's degree in the Center for Higher National Studies.

Political career

Writing the Peruvian Constitution

In aftermath of

Alberto Fujimori Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto ( or ; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian politician, professor and former engineer who was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. Frequently described as a dictator, * * * * * * he remains a ...

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on April 5, 1992, Luz Salgado was elected as a member of the

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, which wrote a new

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during the Peruvian Constitutional Crisis of 1992. During this period she worked closely with ''de facto'' Intelligence Chief

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Congresswoman and Party politics

In the 1990 elections, Salgado ran for deputy for the

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constituency under the

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party, but she was not elected. Five years later in the 1995 elections, Salgado was elected to Congress under the

- New Majority list. In the

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, she was re-elected on the

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list and again in the

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under the

- New Majority list but in August 2001, she was suspended from Congress. In the 2011 general election, after a ten-year absence, she was elected to the

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on the Fuerza 2011 list, representing

for the 2011–2016 term and in the

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on the Fuerza Popular list, for the 2016–2021 term, but her term was cut short by the dissolution of Congress by

Martín Vizcarra Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo (; born 22 March 1963) is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014), First Vice P ...

in September 2019. At the time of her retirement, Salgado held the fifth position in seniority in the Congress of the Republic, with 17 years as a member of Congress in six non-consecutive terms.

References

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