Luis Bedoya Reyes

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Luis Bedoya Reyes (center, in a white suit) during the election campaign

Luis Bedoya Reyes (born February 20, 1919 in Chucuito, La Punta district ) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who was mayor of Lima between 1964 and 1969 . He founded the Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC) in 1966 and was a candidate for the office of President of Peru in both 1980 and 1985 .

Life

Luis Bedoya Reyes completed his school education in Chucuito and Lima and then began studying history and law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima, which he completed in 1942 with a litterarum doctor and the bar exam. He then worked as a teacher at the Leoncio Prado Military School and as a lecturer in history at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). In 1944 he was one of the co-founders of the political daily Jornada , which supported the successful presidential election campaign of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero . He was briefly press secretary of President Bustamante in 1948, before he was overthrown on October 29, 1948 in a coup by the previous Minister of the Interior and Police, Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti . He then worked as a lawyer .

In 1956 Bedoya Reyes was one of the founding members of the Christian Democratic Party PDC (Partido Demócrata Cristiano) , whose first general secretary he was and which supported the presidential candidacies of the applicant of the Acción Popular Fernando Belaúnde Terry in 1956 and 1962 . During the tenure of President Belaúnde Terry between July 28 and December 31, 1963, he served as Minister of Justice and Religion (Ministro de Justicia y Culto) . He was then elected mayor of Lima as the successor to Anita Fernandini de Naranjo and held this office from January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1969, whereupon Eduardo Dibós Chappuis succeeded him. During this he left the Partido Demócrata Cristiano and instead founded the Christian People's Party PPC ( Partido Popular Cristiano ) .

On July 28, 1978 Luis Bedoya Reyes was elected after Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre by the American Revolutionary People's Alliance APRA ( Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ) with the second best vote to the member of the Constituent Assembly (Asamblea Constituyente) , which he did until July 26th 1980 belonged. In the elections on May 18, 1980, he ran for his Christian People's Party PPC for the office of President, but after Fernando Belaúnde Terry from the Acción Popular (1,793,190 votes, 44.9 percent) and Armando Villanueva del Campo from the APRA (1,087,188 votes, 27.2 percent) with 382,547 votes (9.6 percent) only came third. In the elections on April 14, 1985, he again ran for the office of President and this time was again after Alan García from APRA (3,452,111 votes, 53.1 percent) and Alfonso Barrantes Lingán from Izquierda Unida (1,605,139 Votes, 24.7 percent) with 773,313 votes (11.9 percent) only in third place.

Web link

Commons : Luis Bedoya Reyes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis Bedoya Reyes cumple 100 años: esta es la biografía del líder del PPC In: https://canaln.pe . , accessed on March 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Lilia Córdova Tábori: El centenario del Tucán. In: El Comercio. February 17, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Luis Bedoya Reyes. In: Serperuano. February 19, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Bedoya Reyes, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian politician, Mayor of Lima
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chucuito, La Punta district