Luz Salgado

Luz Filomena Salgado Rubianes de Paredes (born July 3, 1949) is a Peruvian politician and journalist.

Luz Salgado
Luz Salgado Rubianes
President of Congress
In office
26 July 2016  26 July 2017
Preceded byLuis Iberico Núñez
Succeeded byLuis Galarreta
In office
13 November 2000  16 November 2000
Preceded byMartha Hildebrandt
Succeeded byValentín Paniagua
In office
22 November 2000  30 November 2000
Preceded byValentín Paniagua
Succeeded byFrancisco Tudela
Member of Congress
In office
26 July 2011  16 March 2020
In office
26 July 1995  23 August 2001
Personal details
Born (1949-07-03) July 3, 1949
Lima, Peru
Nationality Peruvian
Political partyFuerza Popular
New Majority (until 2011)
Spouse(s)Domingo Paredes Santolalla
ResidenceSantiago de Surco, Lima, Peru
WebsiteOfficial Site

Education and professional career

Luz Salgado studied communication sciences at the Universidad San Martín de Porres. She studied additionally for a master's degree in the Center for Higher National Studies.

Writing the Peruvian Constitution

After Alberto Fujimori's illegal self-coup on April 5, 1992, Luz Salgado was made a member of the Democratic Constitutional Congress, which wrote a new constitution during the Peruvian Constitutional Crisis of 1992. During this period she worked closely with Vladimiro Montesinos, the most corrupt Fujimori-era criminal.

Congresswoman and Party politics

Salgado was first elected to Congress in 1992.

In the 2011 parliamentary election she was elected to the Congress on the Fuerza 2011 list, representing Lima for the 2011–2016 term and on the Fuerza Popular list, for the 2016–2021 terms.

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