Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Peru Parties

Also see Peru Ministers

1968-? President of Partido Popular Cristano  Bedoya Reyes

Circa 1970 President Partido Demócrata Cristano  Ayala Haldo

1992-? Leader of Partido Socialista Maria Cabredo de Castillo

1992-2011 Deputy Secretary of Socialist Party Mercedes Cabanillas Bustamente de Llanos de la Mata
2000-2011 Co-Spokesperson in the Congress
Former MP, Senator, Minister of Education and Interior and Presidential Candidate.

1994-? Leader of Hamani 21st Century Susana Higuchi Miyagawa
2000-03 Leader in the Congress of Frente Independénte Moralizador, FIM
2003-06 Leader of Grupo Parlamentario Democrático
2006 Joint Spokesperson for Alianza por el Futuro
Ex-wife of former President Fujimori

1994-95 Spokesperson of Nueva Mayoria Cambió 90 Martha Gladys Chávez Cossío de Ocampo
2005-06 Parliamentary Leader of Nueva Mayoría and Leader of Alianza para el futuro
2006-? President of Alianza por el Futuro
President of the Preparatory Junta of the Cámara de Congreso (July 1995) and 1995-96 President of Congreso, Secretary of the Council of Ministers 1994 and Chairperson of the External Affairs Committee, she was suspended from the Congress du to an allegatino that she had taken a bribe 2002-05. Presidential Candidate in 2006.

Around 1995 Spokesperson of Somos Perú in the Congress Beatriz Merino
She was Prime Minister in 2003.

2000-01 Parliamentary Leader of Perú Posibile Luz Salgado Rubianes de Paredes
Vice-Minister of Regional Development in the Ministry of the Presidency 1992, Member of the Directive Council of the Democratic Constituent Congress 1993-95 , 3rd Vice-President 1996-97 and 1998-99, 1. Vice-President and 2000-01 and in 2000 Acting President of the Congreso National.  

2000 Parliamentay Co-spokesperson of the Socialist Party Mercedes Cabanillas Bustamente de Llanos de la Mata
Minister of Education 1987-89 and 1989-90, Candidate for the Mayorship of Lima in 1989, from 1992 Deputy Secretary and from 2000 Parliamentay Co-spokesperson of the Socialist Party. Circa 1990-99 Senator and from 2000 member of the Congreso where she vas 2. Vice-President 2002-03. Presidential Candidate in 1995. (b. 1947-)

2001- Leader of Unidad Nacional Lourdes Flores Nano
Presidential candidate in 2001 and 2006 and Candidate for Mayor of Lima in 2010.

2000 National co-ordinator of the Partido por la Democracia Social - Compromiso Perú Susana Villarán de la Puente
2005-? Leader of the Partido por la Democracia Social (PDS)
Minister of Women’s Affairs 2000-01, Presidential candidate in 2006 and Mayor of Lima from 2011

2005-10 Leader of the Alliance for the Future Keiko Fujimori Higuchi
2010- Leader of Fuerza 2011
Presidential Candidate in 2011 and 2016. In the 2016-elections, her party got the absolute majority in the Congress.

2005-? Secretary General of Partido Reconstrucción Democrática Beatriz Mejía Mori
Until just before the nomination deadline it was belived that she would be the party's presidential candidate in 2006.

2005-06 Joint Leader of Peru Possible Jeannette Enmanuel Tejada
She withdrew her candidacy for the internal party selection of presidential candidate in 2005. 

2013- President of Partido Nacionalista Peruano Nadine Heredia Alarcón de Humala
Married to Ollanta Humala Tasso, President of Peru since 2011. (b. 1976-)

Updates 07.07.16