Víctor Rolando Sousa Huanambal (born 22 August 1961) is a

Peruvian Peruvians (''/peruanas'') are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 ...

lawyer and

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politician. He was a former

Congressman A member of congress (MOC), also known as a congressman or congresswoman, is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The t ...

representing

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from 2006 to 2011, elected under the

Alliance for the Future in which, he also ran unsuccessfully for the second vice presidency as the running mate of Congresswoman

Martha Chávez Martha Gladys Chávez Cossío de Ocampo (born 12 January 1953) is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and lawyer. A historical and a prominent figure of Fujimorism, she has served in Congress for six non-consecutive terms from 1995 to 2006 and fr ...

under the

Alliance for the Future, in which, the ticket placed fourth. He is a former Representative to the

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serving from 2016 to 2021.

Early life

Sousa was born in Lambayeque on 22 August 1961.

Career

Since 2001 he was former President

Alberto Fujimori Alberto Kenji Fujimori Fujimori (26 July 1938 – 11 September 2024) was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the 54th president of Peru from 1990 to 2000.* * * * * * * Born in Lima, Fujimori was the country's fir ...

’s lawyer in Peru, in association with the criminal attorney César Nakasaki, in which the defense which was taken over by another lawyer, in 2013.

Political career

2006 elections

In the

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, he was elected as a

, representing the constituency of

for the 2006-2011 term after getting 38,578 votes, in which he also ran unsuccessfully for the second vice presidency as the running mate of Congresswoman

under the

Alliance for the Future, in which, the ticket placed fourth.

Congressman

As of August 3, 2006, the Board of Spokesmen of the Congress of the Republic, and the multiparty table (which decides the organization of the various working committees in Congress) appointed him as coordinator of the Committee on Foreign Affairs . Traditionally, the coordinators later become committee chairmen. This table was mainly comprised by the APRA and UN parties; however, the decision was unanimous. Rolando Sousa also chaired the Committee on Justice and Human Rights of the Congress for two consecutive periods, while in Congress. He served as Congressman until July 26, 2011.

Representative to the Andean Parliament

He ran for a seat in the

in the 2016 general election under the ticket of the

Popular Force Popular Force (, FP), known as Force 2011 () until 2012, is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and Fujimorism, Fujimorist political party in Peru. The party is led by Keiko Fujimori, former congresswoman and daughter of former Presiden ...

party of

Keiko Fujimori Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi (, , Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: , ; born 25 May 1975) is a Peruvian politician and business administrator. Fujimori is the eldest daughter of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. From ...

and was No. 1 in the list and was elected to the Andean Parliament for the 2016-2021 term as he received the highest individual number of votes in the election. He took office on July 26, 2016 and left office on July 26, 2021.

References

External links

Official Congressional Site
Living people Fujimorista politicians Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru 20th-century Peruvian lawyers 1961 births People from the Department of Lambayeque 21st-century Peruvian politicians 21st-century Peruvian lawyers {{Peru-politician-stub