Valentín Paniagua
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Interim President of Peru President of a United Government of National Reconciliation |
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In office 22 November 2000 – 28 July 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |
| Vice President | None |
| Preceded by | Alberto Fujimori |
| Succeeded by | Alejandro Toledo |
| President of Congress | |
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In office November 16, 2000 – 28 July 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Luz Salgado |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Ferrero |
| Member of Congress | |
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In office 28 July 2000 – 28 July 2001 |
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| Minister of Education | |
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In office 10 April 1984 – 12 October 1984 |
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| President | Fernando Belaúnde Terry |
| Preceded by | Patricio Ricketts |
| Succeeded by | Andrés Cardo Franco |
| Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 26 July 1982 – 26 July 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Luis Pércovich Roca |
| Succeeded by | Dagoberto Láinez |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 26 July 1980 – 26 July 1985 |
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| Constituency | Lima |
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In office 26 July 1963 – 3 October 1968 |
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| Constituency | Lima |
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 15 September 1965 – 21 January 1966 |
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| President | Fernando Belaúnde Terry |
| Preceded by | Carlos Fernández Sesarego |
| Succeeded by | Roberto Ramírez del Villar Beaumont |
| President of the Popular Action Party | |
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In office 2001–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Fernando Belaúnde Terry (Leader) |
| Succeeded by | Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde |
| Secretary General of the Popular Action Party | |
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In office 1998–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Jorge Díaz León |
| Succeeded by | Javier Díaz Orihuela |
| Personal details | |
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September 23, 1936 Cuzco, Peru |
| Died | October 16, 2006 (aged 70) Lima, Peru |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Political party | Acción Popular |
| Alma mater |
National University of San Antonio Abad in Cuzco San Marcos University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Valentín Paniagua Corazao (23 September 1936 – 16 October 2006) was a Peruvian politician and former Interim President of Peru. Paniagua was elected by the Peruvian Congress to serve as interim president of the country after Alberto Fujimori was ousted from office by Congress in November 2000.
As Interim President, his main task was to organize new elections, after which, in July 2001, he stood down from the presidency. Paniagua was a longtime member and served as Secretary General of Acción Popular.
Paniagua's father was born in Bolivia but lived most of his life in Peru. Valentín Paniagua was born in Cusco and attended high school at Salesian School of Cusco. Then, he went on to study law at the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad in Cusco and later at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He finished there, specializing in constitutional law. In the following years, he worked in his private practice as a lawyer and started a political career.
In August 1955, as a student leader, he was one of the founders of the Frente Universitario Reformista Independiente, a social-Christian reform organization, opposed to landowners' rights, to the communists and to the APRA. Paniagua became a member of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), which was best aligned to his Roman Catholic and reformist ideals.
In June 1963 he was elected to Congress as a representative for Cusco in the joint list of Acción Popular (AP) and PDC, an alliance that catapulted the leader of AP, Fernando Belaúnde, to the presidency of the country. Despite Paniagua's youth, Belaúnde appointed him Minister of Justice and Cult in his first government.
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