Congress of the Republic of Peru

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Congress of the Republic of Peru Congreso de la República

Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
President of Congress	Luis Iberico, Alliance for Progress Since July 26, 2014
1st Vice President of Congress	Natalie Condori, Dignity and Democracy Since July 26, 2014
2nd Vice President of Congress	Mariano Portugal, Regional Union Since July 26, 2014
3rd Vice President of Congress	Luis Galarreta, Christian People's Party Since July 26, 2014
Structure
Seats	130

Political groups	PNP (32) FP (36) PP (11) AP-I (8) APRA-I (9) PPC-APP (7) PSN (7) UR (6) Independent (1)
Salary	S/.187,200 Annually
Elections
Last election	April 10, 2011
Next election	April 10, 2016
Meeting place

Palacio Legislativo (Plaza Bolívar, Lima 01)
Website
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The Congress of the Republic of Peru (Spanish: Congreso de la República) is the unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru. The congress consists of 130 members (congresistas), who are elected for five-year periods in office on a proportional representation basis. To be eligible, candidates must be Peruvian citizens, have passed their 25th birthday, and not have had their right to vote suspended. The last congressional election was held on April 10, 2011, concurrently with the presidential election. Since July 26, 2014, the President of Congress is Luis Iberico, of the Alliance for Progress party. Currently, the Peruvian congress congregates at the Palacio Legislativo, which is located in the Historical Center of Lima, across the road from Plaza Simón Bolívar and a few blocks away from Casa de Pizarro.

Historical

The first Peruvian Congress was installed in 1822 as the Constitutional Congress led by Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro. In 1829, the government installed a bicameral Congress, made up by a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies. This system was interrupted by a number of times by Constitutional Congresses that promulgated new Constitutions that lasted for a couple of years. The Deputies reunited in the Legislative Palace and the Senators went to the former Saint Inquisition of Lima until 1930, when Augusto B. Leguía was overthrown by Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. He installed a Constitutional Congress (1931–1933) that promulgated the Constitution of 1933. By order of the president, the Peruvian Aprista Party members that were in Congress were arrested for there revolutionary doctrines against the government. When Sánchez Cerro was assassinated in 1933 by an APRA member, General Óscar R. Benavides took power and closed Congress until 1939, when Manuel Prado Ugarteche was elected President. During various dictatorships, the Congress was interrupted by coups d'état. In 1968, Juan Velasco Alvarado overthrew president Fernando Belaúnde by a coup d'état, closing again the Congress.

The 1979 Constitution was promulgated on July 12, 1979 by the Constitutional Assembly elected following 10 years of military rule and replaced the suspended 1933 Constitution. It became effective in 1980 with the re-election of deposed President Fernando Belaúnde. It limited the president to a single five-year term and established a bicameral legislature consisting of a 60-member Senate (upper house) and a 180-member Chamber of Deputies (lower house). Members of both chambers were elected for five-year terms, running concurrently with that of the president. Party-list proportional representation was used for both chambers: on a regional basis for the Senate, and using the D'Hondt method for the lower house. Members of both houses had to be Peruvian citizens, with a minimum age of 25 for deputies and 35 for senators. At the beginning of the 1990s, the bicameral congress had a low public approval rating. President Alberto Fujimori did not have the majority in both chambers, the opposition lead the Congress, imposing the power that Fujimori had as President. He made the decision of dissolving Congress by a self-coup to his government in 1992.

Following the self-coup, in which Congress was dissolved, the Democratic Constitutional Congress established a single chamber of 120 members. The CCD promulgated the 1993 Constitution in which gave more power to the President. The new unicameral Congress started working in 1995, dominated by Fujimori's Congressmen that had the majority. The Congress permits a one-year term for a Congressman to become President of Congress.

Composition of the Peruvian Congress

Peruvian Congress of 1995-2000

Main articles: List of members of the Congress of Peru, 1995–2000 and Peruvian general election, 1995

On July 27, 1995 a new unicameral Congress was created with the following distribution by political party:

Change 90-New Majority (Alberto Fujimori): 67 seats
Union for Peru (Javier Pérez de Cuéllar): 17 seats
Peruvian Aprista Party (Mercedes Cabanillas): 8 seats
Independent Moralizing Front (Fernando Olivera): 6 seats
Democratic Convergence-Possible Country (Alejandro Toledo): 5 seats
Popular Action (Raúl Diez Canseco): 4 seats
Christian People's Party (Luis Bedoya Reyes): 3 seats
National Renovation (Rafael Rey): 3 seats
United Left (Agustín Haya de la Torre): 2 seats
OBRAS (Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli): 2 seats
FREPAP (Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal): 1 seat
National Front of Workers and Peasants (Roger Cáceres Velásquez): 1 seat
Agrarian Independent Movement (-): 1 seat

Peruvian Congress of 2000-2001

Main articles: List of members of the Congress of Peru, 2000–2001 and Peruvian general election, 2000

On July 27, 2000 the Congress of the Republic was established. This Congressional period was marked with various episodes of members of Congress switching their party affiliation. The following distribution marks seats by party at the end of the 2000-2001 term:

Peru 2000 (Alberto Fujimori): 52 seats
Peru Possible (Alejandro Toledo): 29 seats
Independent Moralizing Front (Fernando Olivera): 9 seats
Somos Perú: 8 seats
Peruvian Aprista Party: 6 seats
National Solidarity): 5 seats
Avancemos (Federico Salas): 3 seats
Popular Action (Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde): 3 seats
Union for Peru (Máximo San Román: 3 seats
FREPAP: 1 seat

Peruvian Congress of 2001-2006

Main articles: List of members of the Congress of Peru, 2001–2006 and Peruvian general election, 2001

On July 21, 2001 a new Congress of the Peruvian Republic was established the following is a distribution of Congress members by political party affiliation:

Peru Possible (Alejandro Toledo): 35 seats
Peruvian Aprista Party (Alan García): 28 seats
National Unity (Lourdes Flores): 12 seats
Independent Moralizing Front (Fernando Olivera): 7 seats
Somos Perú(Alberto Andrade): 6 seats
Other parties: 27 seats

Peruvian Congress of 2006-2011

Main articles: List of members of the Congress of Peru, 2006–2011 and Peruvian general election, 2006

A new Peruvian Congress of the Republic was established in July 2006 with the following distribution:

Union for Peru (Ollanta Humala): 45 seats.
Peruvian Aprista Party (Alan García): 36 seats.
National Unity (Lourdes Flores): 17 seats.
Alliance for the Future (Martha Chávez): 13 seats.
Center Front (Valentín Paniagua): 5 seats.
Possible Peru (Alejandro Toledo): 2 seats.
National Restoration (Humberto Lay): 2 seats.

Peruvian Congress of 2011-2016

Main articles: List of current members of the Congress of Peru and Peruvian general election, 2011

Peru Wins (Ollanta Humala): 47 seats.
Force 2011 (Keiko Fujimori): 37 seats.
Possible Peru (Alejandro Toledo): 21 seats.
Alliance for the Great Change (Pedro Pablo Kuczynski): 12 seats.
Alliance National Solidarity (Luis Castañeda): 9 seats.
Peruvian Aprista Party (Alan Garcia Perez): 4 seats.

Facade of the Palacio Legislativo.
Details of the front of the Congress.

Committees

Committee	Chairperson	Vice Chairperson
Agrarian	Wuilian Monterola (RU)	Claudia Coari (DD)
Science, Innovation and Technology	Francisco Ccama (PF)	Celia Anicama (DD)
Foreign Commerce and Tourism	Gabriela Pérez del Solar (CP)	Ángel Neyra (PF)
Constitution and Rule	Fredy Otárola (PNP)	Rosa Mávila (AP-FA)
Culture and Cultural Heritage	Ramón Kobashigawa (PF)	Jaime Valencia (PNP)
Consumer Protection and Regulatory Agencies of Public Services	Claudia Coari (DD)	Freddy Sarmiento (PF)
National Defence, Internal Order, Alternative Development and Drug Control	Emiliano Apaza (PNP)	Mariano Portugal (RU)
Decentralization, Regionalization, Local Government and Modernization of the Management of the State	Verónika Mendoza (AP-FA)	Antonio Medina (PF)
Economics, Banking, Finance and Financial Intelligence	Modesto Julca (PP)	José Antonio Urquizo (PNP)
Education, Youth and Sports	Víctor Crisólogo (PP)	Jesús Hurtado (PF)
Energy and Mines	Ruben Coa (PNP)	Lourdes Alcorta (CP)
Supervision and Comptrollership	Gustavo Rondón (SN)	Yehude Simon (PP)
Social Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities	Eduardo Nayap (PNP)	Gian Carlo Vacchelli (PF)
Intelligence	Víctor Isla (PNP)	Luz Salgado (PF)
Justice and Human Rights	Juan Carlos Eguren (PPC-APP)	Vicente Zeballos (SN)
Women and Family	Luisa María Cuculiza (PF)	Ana Jara (PNP)
Budget and General Account of the Republic	Teófilo Gamarra (PNP)	Rolando Reátegui (PF)
Production, Small Business Administration and Cooperatives	Karina Beteta (PF)	Tomás Zamudio (PNP)
Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvianmen, Environment and Ecology	Leyla Chihuán (PF)	Johnny Cárdenas (PNP)
Foreign Relations	Elías Rodríguez (CP)	María Soledad Pérez Tello (PPC-APP)
Health and Population	Aldo Bardález (PF)	Johnny Cárdenas (PNP)
Labor and Social Security	Rolando Reátegui (PF)	Yohny Lescano (AP-FA)
Transportation and Communications	Eulogio Romero (DD)	Casio Huaire (PP)
Housing and Construction	Manuel Merino (AP-FA)	Carlos Bruce (CP)

List of Presidents of the Congress of the Republic

List of Presidents of the Senate (1980-1992)

**Presidents of the Senate of the Republic**
Beginning of Term	End of Term	Name of President	Political Party
July 26, 1980	July 26, 1981	Julio Óscar Trelles Montes	Popular Action
July 26, 1981	July 26, 1982	Javier Alva Orlandini	Popular Action
July 26, 1982	July 26, 1983	Sandro Mariátegui Chiappe	Popular Action
July 26, 1983	July 26, 1984	Ricardo Monteagudo Monteagudo	Popular Action
July 26, 1984	July 26, 1985	Manuel Ulloa Elías	Popular Action
July 26, 1985	July 26, 1986	Luis Alberto Sánchez Sánchez	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1986	July 26, 1987	Armando Villanueva del Campo	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1987	February 25, 1988	Ramiro Prialé Prialé¹	Peruvian Aprista Party
February 25, 1988	July 26, 1988	Jorge Sixto Lozada Stambury²	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1988	July 26, 1989	Romualdo Biaggi Rodríguez	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1989	July 26, 1990	Humberto Carranza Piedra	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1990	July 26, 1991	Máximo San Román Cáceres	Change 90-New Majority
July 26, 1991	April 5, 1992	Felipe Osterling Parodi³	Christian People's Party

¹ Ramiro Prialé died on February 25 of 1988.
² Jorge Lozada assumed the Presidency of the Senate after the death of Ramiro Prialé, because he was the Vice-President of the Chamber.
³ Felipe Osterling's presidency was interrupted when President Fujimori dissolved Congress in 1992.

List of Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1980-1992)

**Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic**
Beginning of Term	End of Term	Name of President	Political Party
July 26, 1980	July 26, 1981	Francisco Belaúnde Terry	Popular Action
July 26, 1981	July 26, 1982	Luis Pércovich Roca	Popular Action
July 26, 1982	July 26, 1983	Valentín Demetrio Paniagua Corazao	Popular Action
July 26, 1983	July 26, 1984	Dagoberto Láinez Vodanovic	Popular Action
July 26, 1984	July 26, 1985	Elías Mendoza Habersperger	Popular Action
July 26, 1985	July 26, 1986	Luis Alberto Negreiros Criado	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1986	July 26, 1987	Fernando León de Vivero	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1987	July 26, 1988	Luis Alva Castro	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1988	July 26, 1989	Héctor Vargas Haya	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1989	January 26, 1990	Fernando León de Vivero¹	Peruvian Aprista Party
January 26, 1990	July 26, 1990	Luis Alvarado Contreras²	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 1990	July 26, 1991	Víctor Felipe Paredes Guerra	Change 90-New Majority
July 26, 1991	April 5, 1992	Roberto Ramírez del Villar Beaumont³	Christian People's Party

¹ Fernando León de Vivero died on January 26 of 1990.
² Luis Alvarado assumed the Presidency of the Chamber after the death of Fernando León De Vivero, because he was the 1st Vice-President of the Chamber.
³ Roberto Ramírez del Villar presidency was interrupted when President Fujimori dissolved Congress in 1992.

Presidents of the Congress of the Republic (1995-Present)

**Presidents of the Congress of the Republic**
Beginning of Term	End of Term	Name of President	Political Party
July 27, 1995	July 26, 1996	Martha Chávez	Change 90-New Majority
July 27, 1996	July 26, 1997	Víctor Joy Way	Change 90-New Majority
July 27, 1997	July 26, 1998	Carlos Torres y Torres Lara	Change 90-New Majority
July 27, 1998	July 26, 1999	Víctor Joy Way	Change 90-New Majority
July 27, 1999	July 26, 2000	Martha Hildebrandt	Change 90-New Majority
July 27, 2000	November 13, 2000	Martha Hildebrandt	Peru 2000
November 13, 2000	November 16, 2000	Luz Salgado¹ (Acting)	Peru 2000
November 16, 2000	November 22, 2000	Valentín Paniagua Corazao²	Popular Action
December 15, 2000	July 26, 2001	Carlos Ferrero Costa³	Possible Peru
July 27, 2001	July 26, 2002	Carlos Ferrero Costa	Possible Peru
July 27, 2002	July 26, 2003	Carlos Ferrero Costa	Possible Peru
July 27, 2003	July 26, 2004	Henry Pease	Possible Peru
July 27, 2004	July 26, 2005	Antero Flores Aráoz	National Unity (Christian People's Party)
July 27, 2005	July 26, 2006	Marcial Ayaipoma	Possible Peru
July 27, 2006	July 26, 2007	Mercedes Cabanillas	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 27, 2007	July 26, 2008	Luis Gonzales Posada	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 27, 2008	July 11, 2009	Javier Velásquez	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 11, 2009	July 26, 2009	Alejandro Aguinaga (Acting)	Alliance for the Future
July 27, 2009	July 26, 2010	Luis Alva Castro	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 27, 2010	July 26, 2011	Cesar Zumaeta	Peruvian Aprista Party
July 26, 2011	July 26, 2012	Daniel Abugattás	Peruvian Nationalist Party
July 26, 2012	July 26, 2013	Víctor Isla	Peruvian Nationalist Party
July 26, 2013	July 26, 2014	Fredy Otárola	Peruvian Nationalist Party
July 22, 2014	July 26, 2014	Luis Iberico (Acting)	Alliance for Progress
July 26, 2014	July 26, 2015	Ana María Solórzano	Peruvian Nationalist Party
July 26, 2015		Luis Iberico	Alliance for Progress

¹ Luz Salgado temporarily assumed the position of President of Congress after a motion to censure President Hildebrandt.
² Valentìn Paniagua, was elected President of Congress and as such simultaneously served as President of the Transitional Government.
³ Carlos Ferrero Costa, was assigned to President of Congress by an agreement between different political parties.
4 Alejandro Aguinaga temporarily assumed the position of President of Congress after Javier Velásquez's nomination as President of the Council of Ministers.
5 Luis Iberico temporarily assumed the position of President of Congress after Freddy Otárola's nomination as Minister of Labor.

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