Lourdes Alcorta

{{family name hatnote|Alcorta|Suero|lang=Spanish}} [[File:Lourdes Alcorta.jpg|thumb|Lourdes Alcorta]] '''María Lourdes Pía Luisa Alcorta Suero''' (born June 21, 1951, in [[Lima]]) is a [[Peru]]vian author, social communicator, [[Fujimorism|Fujimorist]] politician and a former [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Congresswoman]] representing Lima from 2006 to 2019.

== Early life == She graduated from Colegio Sagrado Corazón Sophianum school, in San Isidro, and studied [[advertising]] and [[marketing]] at [[Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]]. Alcorta worked in the private sector until 2003: she started as a television producer, then became [[accountancy]] director for the advertising agencies "Peruana de Publicidad" and "Forum"; she would later form her own agency, "Alma Publicidad". Also, she worked as a public speaker in advertising and marketing seminars, and has recently participated in governance, national security, and death penalty for child rapists seminars.

== Political career == In 2013, she resigned from the [[Christian People's Party (Peru)|Christian People's Party]] and from the [[Alliance for the Great Change]], and joined the Regional Union group, and is elected councillor of Lima's [[San Isidro District, Lima|San Isidro District]]. In 2006, she is elected to Congress for the 2006–2011 term on the [[National Unity (Peru)|National Unity]] list. In the [[2011 Peruvian general election|2011 election]], she is re-elected for another five-year term on the ticket of the [[Alliance for the Great Change]], to which the Christian democrats now belong. In the [[2016 Peruvian general election|2016 election]], she was re-elected for another five-year term this time on the [[Fujimorism|Fujimorist]] [[Popular Force]] and left office in 2019 following to the [[2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis|dissolution of the Congress]].

== References == {{Reflist}} *{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229105627/http://www.congreso.gob.pe/organizacion/FichaCongresista.asp?C_Persona=0427 |date=December 29, 2008}}

==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://www.lourdesalcorta.com/ Lourdes Alcorta's personal site] *[http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2006/lalcorta.htm Official Congressional Site] *[https://archive.today/20121128201627/http://200.37.211.183/pecaoe2011/public/verhojadevida.aspx?ID_CANDIDATO=119906&ID_ORG_POLITICA=2154 Resume on the National Electoral Committee (JNE) site]

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