Ántero Flores Aráoz

**Ántero Flores Aráoz Esparza**  (born 28 February 1942) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In November 2020, he became the Prime Minister of Peru. He resigned on 15 November 2020, just five days into the role. Once a prominent member and leader of the Christian People's Party, he left and founded the Order Party in order to run for the presidency at the 2016 general election, in which he placed tenth and last with 0.4% of the popular vote.

From 2004 to 2005, he was President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. He also was Minister of Defence between 2007 to 2009.

## Biography

Son of Ántero Flores-Aráoz Adalid and Inés Esparza Moselli. He was born in Lima in 1942. He is the fourth grandson of the hero of the Independence of Argentina and Peru, Francisco Aráoz de Lamadrid.

He studied primary and secondary school at Colegio La Salle de Lima. He entered the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; however, he transferred to the National University of San Marcos, from which he graduated in Law and obtained the title of Lawyer.

He has also served as a teacher at the University of Lima and at the University of San Martín de Porres.

### 2020 Peruvian protests

In the 2020 peruvian protest, Ántero Flores Aráoz said lots of controversy phrases. He said that the people protest because they're boring in his houses.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Ántero Flores Aráoz
- **honorific-suffix**: Order of the Sun of Peru, OSP
- **image**: Ántero Flores-Aráoz 2020.jpg
- **office**: Prime Minister of Peru
- **president**: Manuel Merino
Francisco Sagasti
- **term start**: 11 November 2020
- **term end**: 15 November 2020
- **predecessor**: Walter Martos
- **successor**: Violeta Bermúdez
- **office1**: Ministry of Defense (Peru), Minister of Defense
- **president1**: Alan García
- **primeminister1**: Jorge Del Castillo
Yehude Simon
- **term start1**: 20 December 2007
- **term end1**: 11 July 2009
- **predecessor1**: Allan Wagner
- **successor1**: Rafael Rey
- **office2**: President of the Congress of Peru, President of Congress
- **term start2**: 26 July 2004
- **term end2**: 26 July 2005
- **predecessor2**: Henry Pease (Peruvian politician), Henry Pease
- **successor2**: Marcial Ayaipoma
- **office3**: Congress of Peru, Member of Congress
- **constituency3**: Lima
- **term start3**: 26 July 1995
- **term end3**: 26 July 2006
- **office4**: Congress of Peru, Member of the Democratic Constituent Congress
- **constituency4**: National
- **term start4**: 26 November 1992
- **term end4**: 26 July 1995
- **office5**: Congress of Peru, Member of the Chamber of Deputies
- **constituency5**: Lima
- **term start5**: 26 July 1990
- **term end5**: 5 April 1992
- **office6**: Mayor of Lima, Lima City Councilman
- **term start6**: 1 January 1987
- **term end6**: 31 December 1989
- **office7**: Christian People's Party (Peru), President of the Order Political Party
- **term start7**: 23 April 2009
- **term end7**: 13 July 2017
- **office8**: Christian People's Party (Peru), President of the Christian People's Party
- **term start8**: 18 December 1999
- **term end8**: 18 December 2003
- **predecessor8**: Luis Bedoya Reyes
- **successor8**: Lourdes Flores
- **birth name**: Ántero Flores Aráoz Esparza
- **birth place**: Lima, Peru
- **spouse**: Ana María Cedrón Brandariz
- **children**: 3
- **nationality**: vian
- **party**: Independent politician, Independent
- **otherparty**: Order (Peru), Order
Christian People's Party (Peru), Christian People's Party
- **alma mater**: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
National University of San Marcos (Bachelor of Laws, LL.B.)
- **nickname**: "The lesbian dinosaur"