Ántero Flores-Aráoz Esparza (born 28 February 1942) is a

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vian

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and

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who briefly served as

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in November 2020. Once a prominent member and leader of the Christian People's Party, he left and founded the Order Party in order to run for the presidency at the 2016 general election, in which he placed tenth and last with 0.4% of the popular vote.

Biography

Son of Ántero Flores-Aráoz Adalid and Inés Esparza Moselli. He was born in Lima in 1942. He is the fourth grandson of the hero of the Independence of Argentina and Peru, Francisco Aráoz de Lamadrid. He studied primary and secondary school at Colegio La Salle de Lima. He entered the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; however, he transferred to the

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, from which he graduated in Law and obtained the title of Lawyer. He has also served as a teacher at the

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and at the

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Political career

Congress of Peru

He first ran for the Congress of Peru in 1985 as a member of the Christian People's Party, but was not elected. In 1990, he once ran again for Congress of Peru under the FREDEMO coalition and was elected. In 2004 he was elected

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of the

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, the only opposition Congress President during the presidency of

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. On 2 December 2006, he received the post of Permanent Representative of Peru to the Organization of American States. Beginning in December 2007, he has served as Defense Minister of

as well.

Minister of Defense

Flores-Aráoz assumed the position of Minister of Defense of Peru on December 20, 2007, replacing Allan Wagner Tizón, who became the Peruvian Representative before the International Court of The Hague in the case of limits. maritime and land with Chile. Flores-Aráoz is recognized for being

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's Minister of Defense during the 2009 ''Baguazo'' massacre. Following the massacre of revolting natives that resulted in the deaths of thirty-three, he resigned from office.

Prime Minister of Peru

Following the removal of Martín Vizcarra, Flores-Aráoz was named prime minister by Manuel Merino on 11 November 2020. After Merino resigned and was replaced by

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as president, Sagasti appointed Violeta Bermúdez, a constitutional lawyer, to replace Flores-Aráoz as prime minister on 18 November 2020. The government of

announced following Merino's resignation that the attorney general would investigate if Flores-Aráoz was responsible for possible human rights violations.

Political positions

Flores Aráoz holds conservative political positions, and although he was known as a pragmatist and a moderate christian democrat early in his political career, he eventually shifted to

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politics since his exit from the Christian People's Party in 2007. He also has been active in denouncing terrorism in Peru.

Education

Regarding education, Flores-Aráoz supported the low-quality and potentially fraudulent private universities that were closed by government regulators, stating they "deserve a second chance". In one exchange with a reporter in 2006 about discussing a

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with Peruvians that was reported by Página/12 as having "exposed his racism", he described voters as "llamas and vicuñas", stating "You can't ask them a technical issue. It's outrageous. You can't ask all citizens. Those who can't read and write, you're not going to ask that".

Sexual rights

The stances of Flores-Aráoz on sexual rights have been described as conservative. In 2016, he stated "I am absolutely against gay marriage", explaining that he believed "in what is natural, what God did". He also prosecuted dancer and model Leysi Suarez for taking photos of herself naked while sitting on the Peruvian flag.

References

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