Renzo Reggiardo
Renzo Andrés Reggiardo Barreto (born 1 July 1972) is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician, businessman and a former Congressman representing the constituency of Lima for two terms, between 2006 and 2016. In 2018, he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Lima in the local elections. Leading most of the polls throughout the entire campaign, his absence in the mayoral debate caused him to finish in third place in the election with 8.9% of the popular vote, losing to Jorge Muñoz Walls of the Popular Action. Biography. He is the son of the Italian-Peruvian Fujimorist politician Andrés Reggiardo. He graduated  from the University of San Martín de Porres. A fact that aroused public and media attention was the criminal attack suffered by his wife and daughter, when they left their congressional office on August 4, 2011. After the events, he was elected as president of the new special commission on Citizen Security in Congress. Political career. Early political career. He joined his father's party Cambio 90 which was founded by his father and former President Alberto Fujimori and served as its National secretary of its youth branch from 2006 to 2010. In May 2010, he became the National secretary  of Cambio 90. Congressional career. In the 2006 general elections, Reggiardo was elected to the Congress for the 2006–2011 term, representing the city of Lima on the Fujimorist Alliance for the Future. When the ex-president's daughter Keiko Fujimori decided to form a new party, Force 2011, to promote her presidential candidacy for the 2011 presidential elections, Reggiardo did not follow. Instead, he added what was left of Cambio 90 to the National Solidarity Alliance and endorsed former Lima Mayor Luis Castañeda for the presidency. In the congressional vote, Reggiardo was re-elected in the constituency of Lima and  as the only congressman from Cambio 90. Instead of joining with the rest of the representatives elected on the alliance's lists, Reggiardo now sits on the "Parliamentary Coordination" bench, together with the Peruvian Aprista Party's lawmakers and Carlos Bruce. Post-congressional career. 2016 presidential campaign. In the 2016 presidential elections, he ran for President under the Peru Secure Homeland party, the successor of Cambio 90, but he withdrew from the race, as he claimed lack of credibility in the electoral process. 2018 Lima mayoral election. Two years later in 2018, Reggiardo unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Lima in  the 2018 local elections. Leading most of the polls throughout the entire campaign, his absence in the mayoral debate caused him to finish in third place in the election with 8.9% of the popular vote, losing to Jorge Muñoz Walls of the Popular Action.