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Javier Valle Riestra
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Valle Riestra in 2010
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| Member of Congress | |
| In office 26 July 2006 – 26 July 2011 |
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| Constituency | Lima |
| Prime Minister of Peru | |
| In office 4 June 1998 – 21 August 1998 |
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| President | Alberto Fujimori |
| Preceded by | Alberto Pandolfi |
| Succeeded by | Alberto Pandolfi |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 26 July 1985 – 5 April 1992 |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 26 July 1980 – 26 July 1985 |
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| Constituency | Lima |
| Member of the Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 28 July 1978 – 26 July 1980 |
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| Constituency | National |
| Lima City Councilman | |
| In office 1 January 1963 – 1 January 1970 |
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| Personal details | |
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Javier Maximiliano Alfredo Hipólito Valle Riestra González Olaechea
5 January 1932 Callao, Peru |
| Died | 6 July 2024 (aged 92) Lima |
| Nationality |  Peruvian |
| Political party | Partido Aprista Peruano |
| Spouse | Rosario Denegri |
| Residence | Lima |
| Website | Official Site: http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2001/valleriestrajavier.htm |
Javier Maximiliano Alfredo Hipólito Valle Riestra González Olaechea (born January 5, 1932 – died July 6, 2024), known as Javier Valle Riestra, was an important Peruvian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party. He held many public jobs, including being the Prime Minister of Peru in 1998 under President Alberto Fujimori. This was special because he was an opposition politician leading the government, which was very unusual at that time in Peru.
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Early Life and Education
Javier Valle Riestra was born on January 5, 1932. His parents were Richard Valle Riestra Meiggs and Hortensia González-Olaechea Olaechea. He went to school at Colegio Sagrados Corazones de la Recoleta in Lima.
He studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru from 1950 to 1956. Later, he earned a special law degree called a doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, between 1970 and 1971.
Javier Valle Riestra came from a family of important people. His grandfather, Maximiliano González Olaechea, was a famous doctor. His great-grandfather, Manuel Pablo Olaechea, was also a Prime Minister of Peru. His uncle, Pedro Carlos Olaechea Olaechea, was a Minister of Justice.
He was also the head of the Lima Bar Association's Executive Commission. This group helps lawyers in Lima. He was also a vice president for the Peruvian part of the Latin American Human Rights Association, which works to protect people's rights.
In 1995, he joined a group that advised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about a disagreement with Ecuador. He worked as an ambassador in Spain, Germany, and Italy to defend Peru's borders.
Political Career
Starting in Politics
When he was a student, Javier Valle Riestra took part in protests. He wanted political parties to be allowed and for elections to be fair and democratic. This is how he met Ramiro Priano, who encouraged him to help the Aprista Party become legal again. Valle Riestra was a strong speaker and defended the party at public gatherings.
From 1963 to 1969, he was a member of the Lima City Council. He was chosen for this role by the Peruvian Aprista Party.
In 1978, a new group called the Constituent Assembly of Peru was formed to write a new constitution. Valle Riestra was elected to be a member of this group. He worked closely with Victor Raul Haya de la Torre. He helped add important ideas to the 1979 Constitution. These ideas included creating an ombudsman's office (a person who helps citizens with government problems) and a Constitutional Court (a court that checks if laws follow the constitution).
Time Away from Peru
In 1969, a military government led by Juan Velasco Alvarado accused Javier Valle Riestra of planning against their land reform. Land reform was a government plan to change who owned farmland. Because his wife's family had shares in a farm that was part of this reform, he was accused. A businessman warned him, so he flew to London and then to Madrid, Spain, where he lived for a while.
In 1976, Valle Riestra came back to Peru. He was cleared of the accusations against him.
Serving as Deputy and Senator
In the 1980 elections, Javier Valle Riestra was elected as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. This was one part of Peru's Congress.
For the 1985 elections, he wanted to run for president for the APRA party. However, he decided not to when it became clear that Alan García would win the party's nomination. Instead, he was elected as a Senator, which was the other part of Congress. He was re-elected as Senator in 1990.
In the 1990 election, he ran as the second running mate for APRA's presidential candidate, Luis Alva Castro. But they lost the election to Alberto Fujimori. His time as a Senator ended in 1992. This happened when President Alberto Fujimori closed Congress in an event known as a "self-coup." After this, Valle Riestra took a break from politics.
Becoming Prime Minister
In 1998, President Alberto Fujimori asked Javier Valle Riestra to become the Prime Minister of Peru. He took on this important role on June 4, 1998. The Prime Minister leads the group of ministers who run the government.
On July 7, the Congress voted to show they trusted Valle Riestra and his team. They received 68 votes in favor, 32 against, and 2 abstentions. However, Valle Riestra resigned on August 8. He felt his efforts to make the country more democratic were not working. He was replaced by Alberto Pandolfi on August 21, who had been Prime Minister before. Valle Riestra's time as Prime Minister was special because he was an opposition politician leading the government under Fujimori. This was the only time this happened during Fujimori's rule.
His time in office caused some disagreements with members of his own Peruvian Aprista Party. Many in his party strongly disagreed with the Fujimori government. At the same time, he also disagreed with Alan García, who was leading the APRA party from his exile in France.
Back in Congress
In 2005, after he and Alan García had settled their differences, García offered him a spot to run for the Congress of the Republic of Peru in the 2006 elections. He was elected as a Member of Congress with many votes. Valle Riestra said he never really wanted to be elected to a "unicameral" Congress (a Congress with only one main group of lawmakers). He preferred a "bicameral" Congress, which has two groups, like the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies he served in before.
2016 Elections
In the 2016 elections, Valle Riestra ran for a seat in the Andean Parliament. This is a group that works on laws for countries in the Andes region. He ran with the Popular Alliance party, but he was not elected.
See also
In Spanish: Javier Valle-Riestra para niños
