| First Vice President and Second Vice President of the Republic of Peru | |
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| Primer Vicepresidente Constitucional de la República Segundo Vicepresidente Constitucional de la República | |
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Incumbent since 7 December 2022 (First)First Vice President: Vacant (latest incumbent Dina Boluarte) Second Vice President: Vacant (latest incumbent Mercedes Aráoz) and 7 May 2020 (Second) | |
| Residence | Government Palace |
| Appointer | Only direct popular election |
| Term length | Five years, renewable non-consecutively |
| Inaugural holder | Diego de Aliaga (1823) Juan Antonio Pezet and Pedro Diez Canseco (1862) |
| Formation | 1823 (Vice President) 1862 (First Vice President and Second Vice President) |
| Succession | First and Second |
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The Republic of Peru has two vice presidents, the first vice president and the second vice president, who are elected along with the president in democratic elections.[1] Their only constitutional mission is to replace the president in case of death, permanent or temporary incapacity, resignation, being abroad without the permission of Congress, failure to return from abroad at fixed time, and/or dismissal or removal from office as allowed by the Constitution.[a][2] They cannot be appointed outside of general elections.
The first and second vice presidents are first and second in the presidential line of succession.[3] The leader of Congress, the president of the Congress, follows the first vice president and the second vice president in the line of succession.
In modern Peruvian history, two vice presidents have acceded to the presidency after the president could no longer serve, Martín Vizcarra and Dina Boluarte. Martín Vizcarra assumed the office of the presidency in 2018 after the graft scandal that led to the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.[4] Dina Boluarte assumed the office of the presidency in 2022 after President Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve Congress and was impeached and removed from the presidency.
Historically, the position was one of a sole vice president, which was in place in the years 1829–1831 and 1858–1862. The dual positions of first and second vice presidents have been in place since 1862.
The office of the first vice president is currently vacant, the most recent first vice president having been Dina Boluarte. The office of the second vice president is also currently vacant, the most recent second vice president having been Mercedes Aráoz.
History
Vice president
The position of vice president of Peru appeared for the first time in the Constitution of 1823:[5]
"ARTICLE 76: There will be a Vice President in whom the same qualities concur. He/she will administer and withhold Executive Power in event of the death, resignation, or impeachment of the President, or when the president is unable to control the armed forces." Constitution of 1823
The Constitution of 1828 and the Life Constitution of 1826 also proposed only one vice president, who had to be appointed by the president. In the Constitution of 1834, the office was disbanded until the Magna Carta of 1856, which reinstated the sole vice-presidency.
First and second vice presidents
The Constitution of 1860 established two vice-presidents, elected jointly with the president.
Article 89: "There will be two Vice Presidents of the Republic, named first and second, who will be elected at the same time, with the same qualities and for the same period as the President. Constitution of 1860
In the Constitution of 1867, the power of vice-presidents was eminently curtailed. However, this constitution held in place for a short period until a successful revolution of that same year restored the Constitution of 1860.
Similarly, the Constitution of 1920 abolished the positions of vice-presidents. The Constitution of 1933 failed to change this, but the office was eventually restored by the second presidency of Óscar R. Benavides, by law on 1 April 1936. In 1939, via plebiscitary consultation, a constitutional amendment was made restoring the office of vice president and second vice president.
The 1993 Constitution and the current constitution in force — put forth by President Alberto Fujimori — recognizes the double vice-presidency in the Executive Branch.
In recent history, there have been two instances where the first vice president has acceded to the presidency after the president could no longer serve. Martín Vizcarra assumed the office of the presidency in 2018 after the graft scandal that led to the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Dina Boluarte assumed the office of the presidency in 2022 after President Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve Congress and was impeached and removed from the presidency. No second vice president has recently acceded to the presidency.
Current officeholders
The office of the first vice president is currently vacant. The most recent first vice president is Dina Boluarte, who held the office until 7 December 2022 after President Pedro Castillo's self-coup d'état attempt and removal from the presidency. The office of the second vice president is also currently vacant because Castillo's second running mate, Vladimir Cerrón, was disqualified by the National Jury of Elections to run as second vice president in the 2021 election due to Cerrón having served a prison sentence for corruption since 2019.[6][7]
The most recent second vice president is Mercedes Aráoz, who held the office until her resignation was accepted by Congress on 7 May 2020.[8] Earlier, on 30 September 2019, the Peruvian Congress had been in the midst of the 2019 Peruvian constitutional crisis and named Aráoz as Acting President after having declared President Martín Vizcarra unfit for office.[8][4][9] Given that Congress had itself been dissolved earlier that day by President Vizcarra and that Aráoz supported the Vizcarra's call for new congressional elections, she irrevocably resigned as second vice president on 1 October 2019, to leave Vizcarra as the sole claimant to the presidency. Aráoz's resignation was not accepted until 7 May 2020, by a newly elected Congress.[8][4][9][10][11][12]
List of vice presidents of Peru
Sole vice president: 1820-1860
| Vice President | Term of Office | Election | President | |||
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| Start of Term | End of Term | |||||
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Diego de Aliaga | 18 November 1823 | 10 February 1824 | Election of the Congress of the Republic (according to the Constitution of 1823, which created a single vice presidency). | José Bernardo de Tagle | |
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Manuel Salazar y Baquíjano[b] | 9 June 1827 | 7 June 1829 | Direct elections | José de La Mar | |
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Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente[c] | 1 September 1829 | 16 April 1831 | Election of the Congress of the Republic (according to the Constitution of 1828, which created a single vice presidency). | Agustín Gamarra | |
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Juan Manuel del Mar[d] | 24 October 1858 | 16 June 1862 | Direct elections (according to the Constitution of 1856, which established a single vice presidency). | Ramón Castilla | |
Dual vice presidents: 1860-1920
| Vice Presidents | Term of Office | Party | Election | President | |||||
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| Start of term | End of term | ||||||||
| The Constitution of 1860 established two vice presidencies | |||||||||
| 1st | 
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Juan Antonio Pezet | 24 October 1862 | 5 August 1863 | Military | Indirect elections (according to the Constitution of 1860, which established two vice presidencies). | Miguel de San Román | ||
| 2nd | 
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Pedro Diez Canseco Corbacho[e] | Military | ||||||
| Vice presidencies vacant from 1863 to 1868 | |||||||||
| 1st | 
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Mariano Herencia Zevallos | 2 August 1868 | 27 July 1872 | Military | Direct elections | José Balta | ||
| 2nd | 
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Francisco Diez Canseco[f] | Military | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Manuel Costas Arce[g] | 2 August 1872 | 2 August 1876 | Civil Party | Direct elections | Manuel Pardo y Lavalle | ||
| 2nd |
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Francisco Garmendia Puértolas | Civil Party | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Luis La Puerta[h] | 2 August 1876 | 18 December 1879 | Civil Party | Indirect elections | Mariano Ignacio Prado | ||
| 2nd |
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José Francisco Canevaro Valega | |||||||
| Vice presidencies vacant from 1879 to 1881 | |||||||||
| 1st | 
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Lizardo Montero[i] | 12 March 1881 | 6 November 1881 | Military/Civilista Party | Election by the Extraordinary Congress of Chorrillos, at the request of President García Calderón. | Francisco García Calderón | ||
| 2nd | 
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Andrés Avelino Cáceres | Military | ||||||
| Vice presidencies vacant from 1881 to 1886 | |||||||||
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Remigio Morales Bermúdez | 3 June 1886 | 10 August 1890 | Constitutional Party | Indirect elections | Andrés Avelino Cáceres | ||
| 2nd | 
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Aurelio Denegri | Constitutional Party | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Pedro Alejandrino del Solar | 10 August 1890 | 1 April 1894 | Constitutional Party | Indirect elections | Remigio Morales Bermúdez | ||
| 2nd | 
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Justiniano Borgoño[j] | Constitutional Party | ||||||
| 1st | 
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César Canevaro | 10 August 1894 | 20 March 1895 | Constitutional Party | Indirect elections | Andrés Avelino Cáceres | ||
| 2nd | 
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Cesáreo Chacaltana Reyes | Constitutional Party | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Guillermo Billinghurst | 8 September 1895 | 8 September 1899 | Democratic Party | Indirect elections | Nicolás de Piérola | ||
| 2nd |
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Augusto Seminario y Váscones | Democratic Party | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Isaac Alzamora | 8 September 1899 | 8 September 1903 | Civil-Democratic Alliance | Direct elections | Eduardo López de Romaña | ||
| 2nd |
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Federico Bresani | Civil-Democratic Alliance | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Lino Alarco Brediñana[k] | Died before assuming office | Civilista Party | Direct elections | Manuel Candamo | |||
| 2nd | 
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Serapio Calderón[l] | 8 September 1903 | 7 May 1904 | Civilista Party | ||||
| 1st | 
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José Salvador Cavero Ovalle | 24 September 1904 | 24 September 1908 | Civilista Party | Direct election. The 2nd Vice President was not elected. | José Pardo y Barreda | ||
| 1st | 
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Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue | 24 September 1908 | 24 September 1912 | Civilista Party | Direct elections | Augusto Leguía | ||
| 2nd | 
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Belisario Sosa | Constitutional Party | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Roberto Leguía | 24 September 1912 | 4 February 1914 | Civilista Party (Leguiista) | Election by the Congress of the Republic. | Guillermo Billinghurst | ||
| 2nd | 
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Miguel Echenique | Civilista Party (Leguiista) | ||||||
| 1st | 
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Ricardo Bentín Sánchez | 18 August 1915 | 4 July 1919 | Civil-Constitutional-Liberal Alliance | Direct elections. | José Pardo y Barreda | ||
| 2nd | 
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Melitón Carvajal | Military | ||||||
| 1st |
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César Canevaro | 12 October 1919 | 31 October 1922 | Constitutional Party | Direct elections, ratified by Congress. | Augusto Leguía | ||
| 2nd | 
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Agustín de la Torre González[m] | 12 October 1924 | ||||||
| Abolition of the Vice Presidencies (1920-1936) | |||||||||
Dual vice presidents: 1936 onwards
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Timeline
See also
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ While the Constitution itself does not give the vice presidents any role beyond deputizing the president, according to the Organic Law of the Executive Branch, however, the vice presidents can participate in the sessions and debates of the Council of Ministers "with voice but without vote", can fulfil additional functions that the president entrusts and assigns to them, and are also part of the presidential office's support staff.
- ^ Salazar was in charge of the Executive Branch from 9 June to 22 August 1827, while the elected president La Mar traveled from Guayaquil to Lima to assume command; and from 13 September 1828, to 7 June 1829, when La Mar assumed command of the Peruvian army after the outbreak of the War against Gran Colombia until the coup d'état promoted by General La Fuente in Lima.
- ^ La Fuente assumed the interim presidency from 21 September to 25 November 1829, due to President Gamarra's trip to negotiate a peace agreement with Gran Colombia; and from 5 September 1830, to 16 April 1831, when Gamarra had to travel south due to unrest on the Bolivian border. He was forced to resign as vice president in the face of a coup led by Gamarra's wife, Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, the famous "Mariscala.
- ^ Del Mar was in charge of the Executive Branch from 29 September 1859, to 22 March 1860, when President Castilla was absent to take personal command of the army during the Ecuador Campaign. He died days before completing his vice-presidential term, while in the midst of his presidential campaign.
- ^ Pedro Diez Canseco assumed the interim presidency from 9 April to 5 August 1863, due to the death of San Román and the absence of Pezet; He then assumed the effective presidency, replacing the deceased president.
- ^ Francisco Diez-Canseco assumed the interim presidency on 27 July 1872, following the assassination of Balta and the absence of Zevallos; he then assumed the Presidency of the Republic in place of the assassinated president.
- ^ Manuel Costas assumed the interim presidency from 28 November 1874, to 16 January 1875, due to the absence of President Pardo, who was campaigning against Piérola's revolution.
- ^ After President Prado left for the south to lead the war with Chile, La Puerta assumed the interim presidency from 17 May to 28 November 1879; and then, due to a trip abroad, from 18 to 23 December, before being finally overthrown by Piérola.
- ^ Due to García-Calderón's arrest, Montero assumed the effective presidency.
- ^ Following the death of Morales Bermúdez on April 1, 1894, Borgoño assumed the Presidency of the Republic, despite the fact that the latter's position was legally vested in him, as First Vice President. The latter's alleged excuse was alleged.
- ^ Lino Alarco died before being sworn in as vice president, on 13 June 1903. Although the possibility of electing a new first vice president was discussed in Congress, it did not materialize.
- ^ Following the death of Candamo, Serapio Calderón assumed the Presidency of the Republic on 7 May 1904.
- ^ Both did not serve because the Constitution of 1920 abolished the office of vice president, which would be reinstated in 1936.
- ^ Montagne was appointed First Vice President as President of the Council of Ministers in the Benavides government.
- ^ Antonio Rodríguez was appointed 2nd Vice President as Minister of Government in the Benavides administration. While serving in this capacity, he was shot dead while attempting a coup d'état on February 19, 1939.
- ^ Both of them never had the opportunity to take over the government on an interim basis, nor in the absence of the president, as it was established that the president always exercised his office, even when he was out of the country.
- ^ Zenón Noriega assumed the interim presidency of the Military Junta from June 1 to July 28, 1950, after Odría's "descent to the plains" on the occasion of the 1950 general elections.
- ^ Both of them never had the opportunity to take over the government on an interim basis, nor in the absence of the president.
- ^ Luis Gallo Porras assumed the interim government for several short periods, due to President Prado's absence abroad.
- ^ Edgardo Seoane assumed the interim government in April 1967, due to Belaúnde's attendance at the Conference of American Presidents in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
- ^ The vice-presidential posts were suspended after the 1992 Peruvian self-coup. First vice president Máximo San Román led a constitutionalist movement that ignored Fujimori's authority and even went so far as to take the oath of office as President of the Republic before the senators and deputies of the dissolved Congress of the Republic, at the Lima Bar Association. However, his act lacked the support of the public, and Fujimori consolidated his hold on power.
- ^ Because San Román and García y García did not recognize Fujimori as President, the Democratic Constituent Congress approved a Constitutional Law establishing that in the event of the temporary or permanent absence or impediment of the President of the Republic, the President of the Democratic Constituent Congress immediately assumes his duties.
- ^ Tudela and Márquez were forced to resign before the Congress of the Republic after learning of the flight to Japan of re-elected President Alberto Fujimori and the debate over the presidential vacancy.
- ^ Raúl Diez Canseco irrevocably resigned from his position on 30 January 2004, after considering himself the victim of two "politicized" constitutional accusations.
- ^ Omar Chehade resigned from his position on 16 January 2012, following a series of scandals sparked by his meetings with members of the police force to take shares in a private company in October 2011.
- ^ Mercedes Aráoz submitted her resignation on 1 October 2019.
- ^ The second vice presidency was to be occupied by Vladimir Cerrón, however, he was disqualified by the National Jury of Elections in the middle of the election campaign for serving a prison sentence since 2019.
References
- ^ Artículo 111°, Constitución Política Del Perú. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ Artículos 113°, 114°, y 115°, Constitución Política Del Perú. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ Artículo 115°, Constitución Política Del Perú. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ a b c Disolución del Congreso en Perú: 4 claves para entender el enfrentamiento entre Vizcarra y el Parlamento (y lo que puede pasar ahora)", BBC Mundo, 2 October 2019. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ a b c d e f Abog. Freddy Ronald Centurión González. "LA INSTITUCIÓN DE LA VICEPRESIDENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA EN LA CONSTITUCIÓN PERUANA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Pedro Castillo: Habrá minería "donde la naturaleza y la población la permitan"". Energiminas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "JNE declara improcedente candidatura Vladimir Cerrón" (in Spanish). Radio Cumbre. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ a b c "Disolución del Congreso en Perú: quién es Mercedes Aráoz, que renunció tras ser nombrada 'presidenta en funciones' por el Parlamento peruano para sustituir a Vizcarra", BBC Mundo, 2 October 2019. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ a b Disolución del Congreso de Perú: las dudas sobre la legalidad de la decisión de Vizcarra de disolver la cámara y sobre la suspensión temporal del presidente", BBC Mundo, 2 October 2019. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ Disolución del Congreso en Perú: renuncia Mercedes Aráoz, nombrada "presidenta en funciones" por el Parlamento en sustitución de Vizcarra", BBC Mundo, 2 October 2019. (Retrieved 6 October 2019.)
- ^ Aráoz, Mercedes [@MecheAF] (2 October 2019). "He decidido renunciar irrevocablemente al cargo de Vicepresidenta Constitucional de la República. Las razones las explico en la carta adjunta. Espero que mi renuncia conduzca a la convocatoria de elecciones generales en el más breve plazo por el bien del país. https://t.co/c4tz4tnzMw" [I have decided to irrevocably resign from the post of Constitutional Vice President of the Republic. I explain the reasons in the attached letter. I hope that my resignation leads to the calling of general elections in the shortest possible time for the good of the country.] (Tweet) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 June 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Congreso acepta renuncia de Mercedes Aráoz a la segunda vicepresidencia de la República NNDC | PERU". 7 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Presidentes y vicepresidentes desde 1980 en Perú, crisis y realidades". 26 July 2018.
- ^ O'Boyle, Brendan (21 June 2021). "The "Shadowy Figure" Behind Peru's Likely Next President". Americas Quarterly. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
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