Rolando Sousa | |
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) Rolando Sousa | |
| Peruvian Representative to the Andean Parliament | |
| Assumed office July 26, 2016 | |
| Member of Congress | |
| In office July 26, 2006 – July 26, 2011 | |
| Constituency | Lima |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 August 1961 Lambayaeque, Lambayeque, Peru |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Political party | Popular Force (since 2010) |
| Other political affiliations | Alliance for the Future (2006-2010) New Majority (2006-2009) |
| Occupation | Lawyer Politician |
Víctor Rolando Sousa Huanambal (born 22 August 1961) is a Peruvian lawyer and Fujimorist politician.[1] In the 2006 general election, he was elected to Congress, representing Lima for the 2006-2011 term in which he also ran unsuccessfully for second vice president as the running mate of Martha Chàvez under the Fujimorist Alliance for the Future in which the ticket placed fourth. He is currently serving as a Peruvian Representative of the Andean Parliament since 2016.
Since 2001 he was former President Alberto Fujimori’s lawyer in Peru, in association with the criminal attorney César Nakasaki. Defense which was taken over by another lawyer, in 2013.
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 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 ran for the Andean Parliament in the 2016 general election in the ticket of the Popular Force party and was elected to the Andean Parliament for the 2016-2021 term as he received the highest number of votes in the elections and the highest individual.
References
- ^ LR, Redacción (16 July 2013). "Rolando Sousa quiso beneficiar a sentenciados por corrupción" (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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