Alejandro Aguinaga | |
|---|---|
 Aguinaga in 2010 | |
| Member of Congress | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2021 | |
| Constituency | Lambayeque |
| In office 26 July 2006 – 26 July 2016 | |
| Constituency | Lambayeque |
| President of Congress Acting | |
| In office 11 July 2009 – 26 July 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Javier Velásquez |
| Succeeded by | Luis Alva Castro |
| First Vice President of Congress | |
| In office 26 July 2010 – 26 July 2011 | |
| President | César Zumaeta |
| Preceded by | Cecilia Chacón |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Merino |
| In office 26 July 2008 – 26 July 2009 | |
| President | Javier Velásquez |
| Preceded by | Aldo Estrada |
| Succeeded by | Cecilia Chacón |
| Minister of Health | |
| In office 15 April 1999 – 21 November 2000 | |
| President | Alberto Fujimori |
| Prime Minister | Víctor Joy Way Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde Federico Salas |
| Preceded by | Carlos Augusto De Romaña y García |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Pretell Zárate |
| Deputy Minister of Health | |
| In office 1994 – 15 April 1999 | |
| President | Alberto Fujimori |
| Prime Minister | Efraín Goldenberg Dante Córdova Alberto Pandolfi Javier Valle Riestra Víctor Joy Way |
| Minister | Eduardo Yong Motta Marino Costa Bauer Carlos de Romaña y García |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alejandro Aurelio Aguinaga Recuenco 28 January 1950 Trujillo, Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru |
| Nationality |  Peruvian |
| Political party | Popular Force (2010-present) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (before 2010) Alliance for the Future (non-affiliated member / 2006-2010) |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal National University of San Marcos |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Profession | Politician |
Alejandro Aurelio Aguinaga Recuenco (born 28 January 1950) is a Peruvian doctor and Fujimorist politician. He is a Congressman, representing the Lambayeque Region, as he was before between 2006 and 2016. He was also the Health Minister during the administration of Alberto Fujimori from 1999 to 2000.
After eight years of studies since 1966, Aguinaga graduated from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima with a medical degree, in 1975. From 1977 to 1979, he furthered his qualification at the National University of San Marcos, specializing in general and digestive system surgery. From 1981 to 1985, he attended a post-gradual training in gastrointestinal surgery at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. From 1985 to 2006 he practiced at the Archbishop Loayza Hospital in Lima, starting as an assistant surgeon and later gaining promotion to general director. As a professor, he has lectured about surgery at the Cayetano Heredia University, the Universidad de San Martín de Porres, and the private University San Juan Bautista. Additionally, he became the personal doctor of then-president Alberto Fujimori.[1]
During the Fujimori's administration, he held the post of deputy minister of health from 1994 to 1999 and eventually he became minister heading the same ministry from 1999 to 2000.
In the 2006 elections, Aguinaga was elected Congressman on the Fujimorist Alliance for the Future list as an invited candidate, representing the Lambayeque Region. In 2007, he assumed the presidency of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Congress of the Republic in which he served from 26 July 2007 to 26 July 2008. During 2008 and 2009, he was the First Vice President of the Congress under the leadership of Javier Velásquez. When Velasquez was appointed Prime Minister in July 2009, Aguinaga took over the interim Presidency of the Congress for a few days until 26 July when Congress elected Luis Alva Castro. During the Congressional leadership of César Zumaeta, Aguinaga was once again, the First Vice President of the Congress. In the 2011 elections, Aguinaga was re-elected for another five-year term, this time under the Force 2011 party of Fujimori's daughter Keiko. In 2021, Aguinaga is set to return to Congress, after a five-year absence.
