{{Short description|Peruvian lawyer and politician}} {{family name hatnote|Bedoya|de Vivanco|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Javier Bedoya de Vivanco | image = Javier Bedoya de Vivanco, 2010 (cropped).jpg | office = [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Member of Congress]] | term_start = 26 July 2006 | term_end = 26 July 2016 | constituency = Lima | office2 = [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Member of the Chamber of Deputies]] | term_start2 = 26 July 1985 | term_end2 = 5 April 1992 | constituency2 = [[Lima Region|Lima]] | office3 = Member of the [[Metropolitan Municipality of Lima|Lima Metropolitan Council]] | term_start3 = 1 January 1981 | term_end3 = 31 December 1983 | birth_name = Javier Alonso Bedoya de Vivanco | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|09|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Lima, Peru | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Christian People's Party (Peru)|Christian People's Party]] (1978–present) | relatives = [[Luis Bedoya de Vivanco]] (brother)<br/>[[Jaime Bedoya Delboy]] (uncle)<br/>Santiago Bedoya Pardo (nephew) | father = [[Luis Bedoya Reyes]] | children = Mónica Bedoya Denegri<br/>[[Javier Bedoya Denegri]]<br/>Carolina Bedoya Denegri<br/>Alonso Bedoya Denegri | mother = María Laura de Vivanco Sotomayor | spouse = Norma Denegri Ponce de León | profession = [[Lawyer]] | alma_mater = [[Pontifical Catholic University of Peru]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]]) }} '''Javier Alonso Bedoya de Vivanco''' (born 23 September 1948 in Lima) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician ([[Christian People's Party (Peru)|PPC]]) and a former [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Congressman]] representing Lima between 2006 and 2016.
== Early life == Born in Lima on 23 September 1948 to [[Luis Bedoya Reyes]]. His father, Luis is the founder of the [[Christian People's Party (Peru)|Christian People's Party]] and was [[List of mayors of Lima|Mayor of Lima]], member of the lower house of the Peruvian Congress and Minister of Justice, among others. He is a member of the Bedoya family, often compared in Peru with the [[Kennedy family]] because of its extensive and continuous commitment to public service.
== Career == Bedoya is also a lawyer who is partner of Bedoya Law Firm (Estudio Bedoya Abogados). Bedoya Law Firm has attorneys with a wide experience in the provision of corporate counseling services in Civil, Trade, Financial, Industrial Property, Tax and Labor Law, Commercial, Constitutional, Administrative, Civil Procedural and Municipal Law.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
== Political career ==
=== Early political career === Bedoya's first political office was councilor of Lima from 1980 to 1983.<ref name=Gov1>{{cite web|url=https://infogob.jne.gob.pe/Politico/FichaPolitico/javier-alonso-bedoya-de-vivanco_procesos-electorales_aTsj71Y5K7w=s1|title=JAVIER ALONSO BEDOYA DE VIVANCO – PROCESOS ELECTORALES|website=infogob.jne.gob.pe|language=es|accessdate=2023-06-28}}</ref> From 1983 to 1986 Bedoya acted as the sub-secretary of the [[Lima Province]]-PPC.<ref name=Gov1 />
=== Congressional career ===
==== Deputy ==== In the [[1985 Peruvian general election|1985 election]], he was elected to the [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Chamber of Deputies]] under the [[Democratic Convergence (Peru)|Democratic Convergence]] alliance and in the [[1990 Peruvian general election|1990 election]], he was re-elected for a second term, this time under the [[Democratic Front (Peru)|FREDEMO]] list, his term ended when the Congress was dissolved in 1992 due to President [[Alberto Fujimori]]'s [[1992 Peruvian coup d'état|self-coup]].<ref name=Gov1 /> In 1989, he was also promoted to Secretary General on the national level of his party, a position he held until 1992 as well.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
==== Congressman ==== In the [[2006 Peruvian general election|2006 election]] he was elected to the now unicameral [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Congress]] on the [[National Unity (Peru)|National Unity]] list for the 2006–11 term.<ref name=Gov1 /> In the [[2011 Peruvian general election|2011 election]] he was re-elected on the ticket of the [[Alliance for the Great Change]] to which the Christian Democrats now belong.<ref name=Gov1 /> In the [[2016 Peruvian general election|2016 election]], he ran for re-election under the [[Popular Alliance (Peru)|Popular Alliance]] which group the Christian Democrats and the [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|Peruvian Aprista Party]], but lost his seat.<ref name=Gov1 /> He ran for the Presidency of Congress in 2014, but lost to [[Ana María Solórzano]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/congreso/ana-maria-solorzano-elegida-nueva-presidenta-congreso-345832-noticia/|title=Ana María Solórzano es elegida nueva presidenta del Congreso|website=El Comercio Perú|language=es|last=Redacción EC|date=2014-07-26|accessdate=2023-06-28}}</ref>
==External links== {{commons category|Javier Bedoya de Vivanco}} *[http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2006/jbedoya/datos.htm Official Congressional Site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721030026/http://200.37.211.183/pecaoe2011/public/verhojadevida.aspx?ID_CANDIDATO=119823&ID_ORG_POLITICA=2154 Resume on the National Electoral Committee (JNE) site]
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