Omar Chehade

From 2004 to 2007, Omar Chehade was affiliated to the minor Fuerza Democrática party. In the 2011 presidential elections, he was Ollanta Humala's running mate for Second Vice President. After Humala won the election over Keiko Fujimori with 51.5% of the votes in the second round, Omar Chehade took office as Second Vice President on 28 July 2011. Additionally, he was elected Congressman on Humala's Nationalist-dominated Peru Wins list, representing the city of Lima for the 2011–2016 term.

During his term as Congressman, he was President of the Constitution and Regulation Commission (2013-2014) and member of the Ordinary Commissions of Justice and Human Rights, Decentralization, Economy, Defense, Foreign Relations and Foreign Trade and Tourism.

On 5 December 2011, the Congress suspended Chehade as vice president for 120 days. This was justified with allegations that Chehade had tried to use his power for helping an agricultural company in acquiring the Andahuasi sugar plantation.^[3] He resigned as Second Vice President on 16 January 2012, following to the Andahuasi Scandal,^[4] although he continued serving in Congress until the end of his term in 2016. The following day, Congress acquitted him of alleged illegal acts with a controversial vote that was differentiated by one vote for his impeachment as a congressman.^[5]

As a result of the vote, two days later, Congress decided that the investigation of the Chehade case should go to the National Prosecutor's Office, submitting an official letter with the case file to the Public Ministry.^[6]

In 2020, Chehade ran for Congress in the snap election following the dissolution of Congress on September 30, 2019, representing Lima with the Alliance for Progress party and was elected.^[7][8] He currently presides the Constitution Committee.

In September 2020, in the first presidential impeachment process against Martín Vizcarra, Chehade supported the vacancy in his parliamentary speech; however, he did not endorse it during the vote.

During the second presidential vacancy process against Martín Vizcarra, Chehade voted in favor of the declaration of moral incapacity for Martín Vizcarra. The vacancy was approved by 105 MPs on November 9, 2020.^[9]

• Official website of Omar Chehade Archived 9 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine