Alejandro Cavero
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Alejandro Cavero | |
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| Third Vice President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2024 | |
| President | Eduardo Salhuana |
| Preceded by | Rosselli Amuruz |
| Member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru | |
| Assumed office 27 July 2021 | |
| Constituency | Lima |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alejandro Enrique Cavero Alva 6 June 1992 |
| Party | Go on Country – Social Integration Party |
| Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (LLB) |
Alejandro Enrique Cavero Alva (born 6 June 1992) is a Peruvian politician who has been a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru as a member of the Go on Country – Social Integration Party since 2021.
Career
During the 2011 election Cavero worked on Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's youth campaign. He was a journalist that covered politics for El Comercio.[2]
In the 2021 election Cavero won a seat in the Congress of the Republic of Peru from the Lima province as a member of the Go on Country – Social Integration Party.[1] He was selected to serve as Third Vice President.[3]
Personal life
Cavero is a homosexual.[4] On 1 December 2024, he was assaulted at the Lima Art Museum after taking a phone away from an attendee that was harassing him.[5]
Political positions
Cavero is opposed to compulsory voting stating that it increases the amount of uninformed voters.[2] In response to prison overcrowding in most of Peru's prisons, Cavero proposed privatising prisons.[6]
Cavero stated that he is right-wing. He supports the far-right Spanish political party Vox.[4] He called for Peru to recognise Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela after the 2024 presidential election.[3]
Cavero supports equality for LGBTQ people on both moral and economic perspectives.[4] In 2022, he proposed legislation to recognise civil unions, but placed limitations on same-sex adoption except in the case in which one of the partners has a child that does not have another parent.[7][8]