Pedro Spadaro Explained

Pedro Spadaro
Office1:Mayor of Callao
Term Start1:1 January 2023
Predecessor1:Pedro López Barrios
Office2:Mayor of Ventanilla
Term Start2:1 January 2019
Term End2:21 December 2022
Predecessor2:Omar Marcos Arteaga
Successor2:Jhovinson Vásquez
Office3:Member of Congress
Term Start3:26 July 2011
Term End3:26 July 2016
Constituency3:Callao
Birth Name:Pedro Carmelo Spadaro Philipps
Birth Date:16 May 1977
Birth Place:Lima, Peru
Party:Popular Force
Alma Mater:University of San Martín de Porres
Occupation:Politician

Pedro Carmelo Spadaro Philipps (born 16 May 1977) is a Peruvian lawyer and Fujimorist politician and a former Congressman, representing the Constitutional Province of Callao between 2011 and 2016. Spadaro served as Mayor of Ventanilla from 2019 and 2022. He is the current mayor of Callao.

Biography

In 2000 he graduated as a lawyer from the University of San Martín de Porres. He completed a specialization course in municipal management at the Lima Bar Association in 2001, and completed part of a master's degree at the University of Piura.

Political career

Early political career

In the 2002 regional elections, he unsuccessfully ran for a position as councilor for the La Perla District for the La Perla Independent Movement. Between 2004 and 2006 he was general manager and advisor to the Callao regional presidency, when it was occupied by Rogelio Canches. In the legislative elections of 2006 and in those of 2010 he ran, in both cases without success, for the position of mayor of the Ventanilla District, at the first opportunity by the Movimiento Amplio Regional Callao (Mar Callao), a party founded and directed by Canches, and in the second by Mi Callao.

Congressman

In the 2011 elections, he ran for a seat in Congress under the Force 2011 party of Keiko Fujimori, representing the Constitutional Province of Callao and was elected for the 2011–2016 term.[1] [2]

He has made several criticisms of Susana Villarán’s municipal management of Lima (2011-2014), claiming that state resources are being misused.

Mayor of Ventanilla

In the municipal and regional elections held on October 7, 2018, he was elected mayor of Ventanilla by the "Fuerza Chalaca" Regional Movement, a movement created and chaired by Omar Marcos Arteaga.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Congresistas . Congress of the Republic of Peru . 8 March 2021.
  2. Web site: Infogob Observatorio para la Gobernabilidad. 9 March 2021. Infogob. en.