Office: | Member of Congress |
Term Start: | 27 July 2021 |
Constituency: | Lima |
Roberto Sánchez Palomino | |
Office2: | President of Together for Peru |
Party2: | Logo juntos por el Peru.svg |
Term Start2: | 1 October, 2017 |
Office3: | Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism |
Term Start3: | 29 July 2021 |
Term End3: | 7 December 2022 |
President3: | Pedro Castillo |
Primeminister3: | Guido Bellido Mirtha Vásquez Héctor Valer Aníbal Torres Betssy Chávez |
Birth Place: | Huaral, Peru |
Birth Date: | Roberto Helbert Sánchez Palomino 1969 2, df=yes |
Party: | Together for Peru (since 2017) |
Otherparty: | Peruvian Humanist Party (since 2006) |
Education: | National University of San Marcos |
Roberto Helbert Sánchez Palomino (born February 3, 1969) is a Peruvian psychologist and politician. He is a congressman of the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the period 2021-2026 and was Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism for Pedro Castillo from July 29, 2021 until his resignation on December 7, 2022.[1]
Roberto was born in Huaral on February 3, 1969.[2] He studied Psychology at the National University of San Marcos.[3]
In 2020, he was appointed manager of Social Development of the Provincial Municipality of Huaral.
In the 2006 general elections, Roberto ran for congress for the Decentralist Concertation for Lima, without success, he obtained 1,259 votes.[4]
In the 2006 regional and municipal elections, Roberto was a candidate for mayor of Huaral for the Peruvian Humanist Party, but was unsuccessful in winning it.[5]
He was part of the Peruvian Humanist Party, later he joined Together for Peru, where he is the president as of 2022.[6] [7]
In the 2021 general elections, he was elected congressman for the Republic of Peru with Together for Peru, with 29,827 votes, for the 2021-2026 parliamentary period.[8]
On July 29, 2021, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism in the government of Pedro Castillo.