- Jorge Del Castillo
Infobox Prime Minister
name = Jorge del Castillo
imagesize = 150px
order = Prime Minister of Peru
president =Alan García
term_start = 28 July 2006
term_end =
predecessor =Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
successor =Yehude Simon (Designate)
birth_date = birth date and age|1950|07|02|df=y
birth_place =Lima ,Peru
spouse =
party = APRA
alma_mater =National University of San Marcos Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
religion =Roman Catholic Jorge Alfonso Alejandro Del Castillo Gálvez (
Lima ,July 2 ,1950 ) is aPeru vian lawyer and politician. He was thePrime Minister of Peru . He is also a member and current Secretary-General of the Peruvian Aprista Party. In his career he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies, in the Peruvian Congress of the Republic, and as mayor ofLima andBarranco .Education
Jorge Del Castillo studied law at the
National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru from 1968 to 1974. Between 1993 and 1994 Del Castillo studied Constitutional Law atPontifical Catholic University of Peru .Politics
Del Castillo served as mayor of Barranco Ward, Lima from 1984 to 1986. In 1985 he was appointed by then "Aprista" President
Alan Garcia as prefect (appointed state governor) of Lima. In 1987 he was elected as mayor of Metropolitan Lima County running as a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party and served as mayor until 1989. In 1992 when then PresidentAlberto Fujimori dissolved the opposition controlled Congress, Del Castillo helped APRA leader Alan Garcia find refuge inColombia .Del Castillo didd not return to politics until 1995 when he was elected to Congress representing Lima. He won re-election to Congress in 2000, 2001, and 2006. In 1999, he became the Secretary-General of the APRA and was confirmed to the position in 2004. He represents the APRA before the
Organization of American States .His cabinet resigned on 10 October 2008 following an oil scandal. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7664803.stm Oil row brings down Peru cabinet] ]
See Also
2008 Peru oil scandal References
External links
* [http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2006/jdelcastillo/_hoja-vida.htm Official Congress Profile] "Congress of the Republic of Peru"
* [http://www.apra.org.pe/ Peruvian Aprista Party] "Official Site"
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