Rafael López Aliaga

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Rafael Bernardo López-Aliaga Cazorla (born 11 February 1961) is a Peruvian businessman, industrial engineer and politician who served as mayor of Lima from 2023 to 2025. He is currently the leader of the far-right Popular Renewal party, the successor to National Solidarity in 2020, and the party's candidate in the 2026 Peruvian presidential election. Entering politics late in his career, López Aliaga was elected to Lima's Metropolitan Council, serving under mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio's second term. Following a failed run for the Peruvian Congress in 2011, he remained a member of National Solidarity but stayed in the private sector. It was not until 2019 when he assumed the leadership of his party as General Secretary following Castañeda's pretrial detention for a corruption trial. At the 2020 parliamentary election, López Aliaga gained political attention as he started shifting his party further to the right. Eventually, National Solidarity failed to attain congressional representation...

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