The 49-year-old Salaverry ran for the presidency for the conservative We Are Peru party in the first round of April 11 and was twelfth out of 18 candidates, with 1.35% of the votes, according to the official vote count.
Five days before Castillo’s inauguration, the head of the ruling Peru Libre (PL) party, Vladimir Cerrón, announced that Salaverry would lead the transition team in the housing area.
Due to delays in the scrutiny due to the tightness of the result and subsequent appeals for annulment filed by the two contestants on the June 6 ballot, Castillo was proclaimed president-elect only nine days before taking office.
Salaverry joined Somos Perú in 2020, after leaving the right-wing populist Popular Force (FP, Fujimori) party, of which he was a part between 2015 and 2019 and for which he was a member of the unicameral Congress in 2016-19 and came to preside over it in the period 2018-19.
Before, between 2002 and 2014, he belonged to the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP), the inheriting force of the old American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), born from the center-left and running to the center-right during the leadership of the late former president Alan García.
In 2011, by the PAP, and in 2014, by FP, he ran for mayor of Trujillo, the capital of the northern department of La Libertad, in both cases without success.
Source From: Ambito
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