María del Carmen Alva Prieto (born 24 February 1967) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician serving as the

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of the

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since 26 July 2021 and a member of the Congress representing

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. She is a member of the centrist Popular Action.

Early life

Alva was born in Lima on 24 February 1967 and is a daughter , brother of a former congressman and historic leader of the Popular Action

Javier Alva Orlandini Javier Alva Orlandini (December 11, 1927 – June 1, 2020) was a peruvian lawyer and politician. A prominent member of the political party Popular Action, he served as the President of the party. He served as the Second Vice President of Peru ...

. Her grandfather, José Felipe Alva y Alva was senator for

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. She studied law at the

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where she graduated as a lawyer. She obtained a master's degree in Public Management at the Government Institute of the

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Career

She was a parliamentary coordinator and lawyer of the Legal Management of the Social Security Normalization Office. Additionally, she was a legal advisor at the

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. For the 2006 general elections, she was a member of the Government Plan Commission on public management issues for the presidential candidacy of

Valentín Paniagua Valentín Toribio Demetrio Agustin Paniagua Corazao (23 September 1936 – 16 October 2006) was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as President of Peru from 2000 to 2001. Elected President of Congress on 16 November 2000, he ...

. In those elections, Alva began her political career running for the Congress of the Republic for the Frente de Centro. However, she was not elected. In the 2010 Lima municipal elections, she was elected councilor of Santa María del Mar for Popular Action. And also deputy mayor, during the administration of Viviana Roda Scheuch, for the municipal period 2010-2014. In the 2020 parliamentary elections, she tried again to run for Congress for Popular Action, but was not elected again. In the 2021 general elections, Alva was elected congresswoman of the republic for Acción Popular, with 25,219 votes, for the 2021-2026 parliamentary term. On July 26, 2021, Alva was elected president of the Congress of the Republic for the 2021-2022 legislative period.

Private life

She is married and has three sons.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alva, Maricarmen 1967 births Living people Politicians from Lima University of Lima alumni Popular Action (Peru) politicians Presidents of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Peruvian anti-communists Peruvian people of Italian descent Peruvian people of Spanish descent Peruvian people of Basque descent Peruvian people of English descent Peruvian people of Mestizo descent Peruvian people of Portuguese descent 21st-century Peruvian politicians 21st-century Peruvian women politicians Women members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru