Luz Salgado
Luz Filomena Salgado Rubianes de Paredes (born July 3, 1949) is a Peruvian Fujimorista politician and journalist who served as President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru from 2016 to 2017 and briefly in 2000 in a interim capacity.
Luz Salgado | |
|---|---|
 Luz Salgado Rubianes | |
| President of Congress | |
| In office 26 July 2016 – 26 July 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Luis Iberico Núñez |
| Succeeded by | Luis Galarreta |
| In office 22 November 2000 – 30 November 2000 Acting | |
| Preceded by | Valentín Paniagua |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Tudela |
| In office 13 November 2000 – 16 November 2000 Acting | |
| Preceded by | Martha Hildebrandt |
| Succeeded by | Valentín Paniagua |
| Member of Congress | |
| In office 26 July 2011 – 16 March 2020 | |
| Constituency | Lima |
| In office 26 July 1995 – 26 July 2001 | |
| Constituency | Lima |
| Member of the Democratic Constituent Congress | |
| In office 26 November 1992 – 26 July 1995 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 3, 1949 Lima, Peru |
| Nationality |  Peruvian |
| Political party | Fuerza Popular Cambio 90–New Majority (until 2011) |
| Spouse(s) | Domingo Paredes Santolalla |
| Residence | Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru |
| Website | Official 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
In aftermath of Alberto Fujimori's self-coup on April 5, 1992, Luz Salgado was elected as 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 de facto Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos, the most corrupt Fujimori-era criminal.
Congresswoman and Party politics
Salgado was first elected to Congress in 1995. In 2000, she was re-elected on the Peru 2000 list and again in 2001 under the Cambio 90-New Majority list but in August 2001, she was suspended from Congress.
In the 2011 general election, after a ten-year absence, 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.
