| Ántero Flores-Aráoz | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | OSP |
| Office: | Prime Minister of Peru |
| President: | Manuel Merino |
| Term Start: | 11 November 2020 |
| Term End: | 15 November 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Walter Martos |
| Successor: | Violeta Bermúdez |
| Office1: | Minister of Defense |
| President1: | Alan García |
| Primeminister1: | Jorge Del Castillo Yehude Simon |
| Term Start1: | 20 December 2007 |
| Term End1: | 11 July 2009 |
| Predecessor1: | Allan Wagner |
| Successor1: | Rafael Rey |
| Office2: | President of Congress |
| Term Start2: | 26 July 2004 |
| Term End2: | 26 July 2005 |
| Predecessor2: | Henry Pease |
| Successor2: | Marcial Ayaipoma |
| Office3: | Member of Congress |
| Constituency3: | Lima |
| Term Start3: | 26 July 2001 |
| Term End3: | 26 July 2006 |
| Constituency4: | National |
| Term Start4: | 26 July 1995 |
| Term End4: | 26 July 2001 |
| Office5: | Member of the Democratic Constituent Congress |
| Constituency5: | National |
| Term Start5: | 26 November 1992 |
| Term End5: | 26 July 1995 |
| Office6: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Constituency6: | Lima |
| Term Start6: | 26 July 1990 |
| Term End6: | 5 April 1992 |
| Office7: | Lima City Councilman |
| Term Start7: | 1 January 1987 |
| Term End7: | 31 December 1989 |
| Office8: | President of the Order Political Party |
| Term Start8: | 23 April 2009 |
| Term End8: | 13 July 2017 |
| Office9: | President of the Christian People's Party |
| Term Start9: | 18 December 1999 |
| Term End9: | 18 December 2003 |
| Predecessor9: | Luis Bedoya Reyes |
| Successor9: | Lourdes Flores |
| Birth Name: | Ántero Flores-Aráoz Esparza |
| Birth Date: | 1942 2, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Lima, Peru |
| Spouse: | Ana María Cedrón Brandariz |
| Children: | 3 |
| Alma Mater: | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru National University of San Marcos (LL.B.) |
Ántero Flores-Aráoz Esparza (born 28 February 1942)[1] is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Peru in November 2020. Once a prominent member and leader of the Christian People's Party, he left and founded the Order Party in order to run for the presidency at the 2016 general election, in which he placed tenth and last with 0.4% of the popular vote.[2] [3] [4]
Son of Ántero Flores-Aráoz Adalid and Inés Esparza Moselli. He was born in Lima in 1942. He is the fourth grandson of the hero of the Independence of Argentina and Peru, Francisco Aráoz de Lamadrid.
He studied primary and secondary school at Colegio La Salle de Lima. He entered the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; however, he transferred to the National University of San Marcos, from which he graduated in Law and obtained the title of Lawyer.
He has also served as a teacher at the University of Lima and at the University of San Martín de Porres.
He first ran for the Congress of Peru in 1985 as a member of the Christian People's Party, but was not elected. In 1990, he once ran again for Congress of Peru under the FREDEMO coalition and was elected. In 2004 he was elected President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru,[5] the only opposition Congress President during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. On 2 December 2006, he received the post of Permanent Representative of Peru to the Organization of American States. Beginning in December 2007, he has served as Defense Minister of Peru as well.[6]
Flores-Aráoz assumed the position of Minister of Defense of Peru on December 20, 2007, replacing Allan Wagner Tizón, [7] who became the Peruvian Representative before the International Court of The Hague in the case of limits. maritime and land with Chile.
Flores-Aráoz is recognized for being Alan García's Minister of Defense during the 2009 Baguazo massacre.[8] Following the massacre of revolting natives that resulted in the deaths of thirty-three, he resigned from office.
Following the removal of Martín Vizcarra, Flores-Aráoz was named prime minister by Manuel Merino on 11 November 2020.[9] [10] After Merino resigned and was replaced by Francisco Sagasti as president, Sagasti appointed Violeta Bermúdez, a constitutional lawyer, to replace Flores-Aráoz as prime minister on 18 November 2020.[11]
The government of Francisco Sagasti announced following Merino's resignation that the attorney general would investigate if Flores-Aráoz was responsible for possible human rights violations.[12]
Flores Aráoz holds conservative political positions, and although he was known as a pragmatist and a moderate christian democrat early in his political career, he eventually shifted to far right politics since his exit from the Christian People's Party in 2007.[13] He also has been active in denouncing terrorism in Peru.[14]
Regarding education, Flores-Aráoz supported the low-quality and potentially fraudulent private universities that were closed by government regulators, stating they "deserve a second chance". In one exchange with a reporter in 2006 about discussing a free trade agreement with Peruvians that was reported by Página/12 as having "exposed his racism", he described voters as "llamas and vicuñas", stating "You can't ask them a technical issue. It's outrageous. You can't ask all citizens. Those who can't read and write, you're not going to ask that".[15]
The stances of Flores-Aráoz on sexual rights have been described as conservative.[16] In 2016, he stated "I am absolutely against gay marriage", explaining that he believed "in what is natural, what God did". He also prosecuted dancer and model Leisy Suarez for taking photos of herself naked while sitting on the Peruvian flag.[17]
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