Enrique Wong Pujada | |
Office: | Member of Congress |
Term Start: | 26 July 2021 |
Term End: | 13 July 2024 |
Constituency: | Callao |
Term Start2: | 26 July 2011 |
Term End2: | 26 July 2016 |
Constituency2: | Callao |
Office3: | Second Vice President of Congress |
President3: | Maricarmen Alva |
Term Start3: | 26 July 2021 |
Term End3: | 26 July 2022 |
Predecessor3: | Luis Roel |
Successor3: | Digna Calle |
Office4: | San Martín de Porres District Councilman |
Term Start4: | 1 January 1999 |
Term End4: | 31 December 2002 |
Office5: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Constituency5: | Callao |
Term Start5: | 26 July 1985 |
Term End5: | 26 July 1990 |
Office6: | Callao Province Councilman |
Term Start6: | 1 January 1981 |
Term End6: | 31 December 1983 |
Birth Name: | Enrique Wong Pujada |
Birth Date: | 26 June 1941 |
Birth Place: | Lima, Peru |
Death Place: | Lima, Peru |
Party: | Podemos Perú (2018–2024) |
Otherparty: | National Solidarity (2013–2016) Alliance for the Great Change (non-affiliated / until 2013) National Justice (2006) Vamos Vecino (1990s–2000s) Peruvian Aprista Party (1980s–1990s) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Medical doctor |
Alma Mater: | Escuela Superior Médica de México |
Enrique Wong Pujada (26 June 1941 – 13 July 2024) was a Peruvian politician of Chinese descent. He was elected as a Congressman of the Republic of Peru in the 2011 elections for the 2011–2016 term, representing Callao. He was elected under the Alliance for the Great Change ticket and later left and joined National Solidarity.[1] [2] He was previously a Deputy representing Callao from 1985 to 1990. He was previously a District Councilor representing San Martín de Porres from 1999 to 2002, elected under the Fujimorist Vamos Vecino of Alberto Fujimori. In the 2018 regional elections, he ran for Regional Governor of Callao under the newly Podemos Perú party, but he was not elected, attaining only 3.6% of the vote.
In 1998 he was elected district councilor of San Martín de Porres by the Vamos Vecino movement, a position he held between 1999 and 2002.
In the 2002 regional elections, he unsuccessfully ran for the position of Callao regional councilor for the Independent Movement Chim Pum Callao.
In the general elections of 2006 he ran for Congress for the National Justice party, without being elected. Nor was his candidacy for the provincial mayor of Callao successful in the 2010 regional elections, running for the Mi Callao movement, and losing the elections again, this time against Juan Sotomayor García.
In 1966 he graduated as a doctor at the Medical School of Mexico, and in 1972 he completed a postgraduate degree in internal medicine at the Mexican Institute of Social Security. He served as general manager of his family-founded clinic in San Martín de Porres, Lima, between 2003 and 2009.
Wong died from cancer in Lima, on 13 July 2024, at the age of 83.[3] [4]
In 2011 Wong was accused by his sister of mismanaging his family clinic for personal gain and tax avoidance.[5]