Alberto Borea Odría is a

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vian lawyer and politician. He was Fuerza Democrática's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election. He was Deputy from 1985 to 1990 and Senator from 1990 to 1992, when

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dissolved the parliament. Later that year he participated in a failed coup attempt, led by General

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. From 2004 to 2005 he represented Peru at the

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. In the 2006 presidential elections he was considered to be a very minor candidate and received 0.2% of the vote, coming in 13th place. He is attempting to run again in 2016, but he is not a real contender. On December 20, 2017, at the Peruvian Congress, he defended President Pedro Pablo Kuscinsky from accusations of being morally unfit, his brilliant defence yielding a totally unexpected positive result, as there were not enough votes cast to impeach him.

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