José Antonio Urquizo Explained

José Antonio Urquizo
Office:Minister of Defense
President:Ollanta Humala
Primeminister:Óscar Valdés
Term Start:May 14, 2012
Term End:July 23, 2012
Predecessor:Luis Alberto Otárola
Successor:Pedro Cateriano
Office1:Minister of Production
President1:Ollanta Humala
Primeminister1:Óscar Valdés
Term Start1:December 11, 2011
Term End1:May 14, 2012
Predecessor1:Kurt Burneo
Successor1:Gladys Triveño
Office2:Member of Congress
Constituency2:Ayacucho
Term Start2:July 26, 2006
Term End2:July 26, 2016
Order3:1st Lieutenant Governor of Ayacucho
Governor3:Omar Quesada
Term Start3:January 1, 2003
Term End3:July 26, 2006
Predecessor3:Office created
Successor3:Rubén Quispe Bedriñana
Birth Name:José Antonio Urquizo Maggia
Birth Date:13 February 1967
Birth Place:Ayacucho, Ayacucho, Peru
Nationality: Peruvian
Party:Ayacucho Wins (2017-present)
Otherparty:Peruvian Nationalist Party (2006-2016)
Peruvian Aprista Party (2003-2006)
Alma Mater:Federico Villarreal National University (LLB)

José Antonio Urquizo Maggia (born February 13, 1967) is a Peruvian politician (PNP). He served as a Congressman representing Ayacucho from 2006 to 2016.

Education

From 1984 to 1989, José Antonio Urquizo studied cooperativism and university teaching at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (UNFV) in Lima, which he concluded with a master's degree. Since 1991, he has been a lecturer at his alma mater. From 1995 to 1995, he led a higher technological institute in Ayacucho. From 1999 to 2000, he took a specialization course in administration at the UNFV.

Political career

Early political career

In the 2002 regional elections, Urquizo was elected vice governor of the Ayacucho Region, for a four-year term, under the social-democratic Peruvian Aprista Party.

Congressional career

In the 2006 elections, he was elected to the Congress to represent his home region, on the joint Peruvian Nationalist Party-Union for Peru list. After the split of the alliance, he sat on the Nationalist bench. In the 2011 elections, he was re-elected on the Peru Wins list. In December 2011, after Salomón Lerner resigned as Prime Minister of Peru, Ollanta Humala appointed him as Minister of Production. Afterwards in 2012 he briefly served as Minister of Defense after the resignation of Luis Alberto Otárola and was replaced by Pedro Cateriano in July 2012.

Post-congressional career

In the 2018 regional elections, he ran for Governor of Ayacucho, but lost, placing third.

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