Alberto Beingolea | |
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| President of the Christian People's Party | |
| In office 16 December 2017 – 15 April 2021 | |
| Vice President | Edinson Terán Gino Amoreti Rosana Huarcaya José Risi |
| Preceded by | Alonso Navarro Cabanillas |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Neuhaus |
| Member of Congress | |
| In office 26 July 2011 – 26 July 2016 | |
| Constituency | Lima |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alberto Ismael Beingolea Delgado (1964-11-19)19 November 1964 (age 60) Lima, Peru |
| Political party | Christian People's Party (2003–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Alliance for the Great Change (2010–2011) |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (LLB) (LLM) |
| Occupation | Sports journalist Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Alberto Ismael Beingolea Delgado (born 19 November 1964) is a Peruvian politician, who was the President of theChristian People's Party between 2017 and 2021.[1][2] He is a formerCongressman, representingLima between 2011 and 2016. Before entering politics, he was a journalist andsports commentator.
Beingolea was born inLima on 19 November 1964. He completed his elementary and secondary education at the San Luis Maristas School ofBarranco.
Upon graduation, he was admitted to thePontifical Catholic University of Peru, from which he received his law degree in June 1990. Specializing incriminal law, he completed his a master's degree in that specialty at the same university in 2009.
As a university professor, he is a member of the Department of Law of the Catholic University, where he also teaches, for the Faculty of Communication Sciences, courses insports journalism anddeontology. He is also an itinerant professor ofcriminal law at theCésar Vallejo University, a subject that he also taught before at theUniversity of San Martín de Porres.
Beingolea has a long history as a journalist and sportscaster. He started on television at the age of 13, integrating the cast of the programLos Niños y su Mundo byYola Polastri. He was later promoted byAmérica Televisión to broadcast the1982 FIFA World Cup before turning 18, and since then he has been a member of the sports staff of that channel, with which he also broadcast the1986 FIFA World Cup, the1984 Olympics and1988 Olympics, qualifying rounds, World Athletics Championships, the86 Volleyball World Cup,Libertadores Cups, and many more tournaments. In 1986, he was given for the first time the conduction of his own program of World Cup memories:The Best of the World Cup, and after that, he took over the sports sequence of the América Televisión newscasts. In 1990, after resigning fromAmérica Televisión due to differences with management, he was hired byPanamericana Televisión to broadcast the1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, with El Veco and Humberto Martínez Morosini.
After the1990 FIFA World Cup, Beingolea decided to accept the defunct offer of Global Televisión Canal 13, a small channel that wanted to prioritize his sports programming. There he had full autonomy, creating and conducting theGoles en Acción program, with which soccer programs began on Sunday nights on Peruvian television. He also directedAcción on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and created a range of daily sports programs, the most memorable beingMás Acción in the mornings andAcción al día in the evenings.
With that staff in January 1999 he went toATV, where they changed their name and called themselves El Equipo, the main program being El Equipo de Goles, dedicated to soccer on Sundays at 10 pm. The team made a great and extensive coverage of the World Cup in France 98 and was one of the main responsible for exacerbating Chilean spirits in the match that the Peruvian team faced their Chilean counterpart in Santiago de Chile in October 1997, in which they lost by 4 to 0, thus losing the qualifying by goal difference. He resigned from said program in 2000, denouncing that the Alberto Fujimori regime had infiltrated its journalistic operators into ATV, with the complicity of their owners, to try to save themselves from what was his downfall. With him, his entire team resigned, ending a prolific decade, which set styles and guidelines for sports journalism on TV.
Between 2001 and 2003, Beingolea later reappeared as the sports director ofFrecuencia Latina for two years.
In June 2003, Beingolea joined CMD, where he hosted the programsCrónicas de balón,Versus andPartido Aparte, being the main commentator for theCampeonato Descentralizado and thePeru national team, qualifying rounds and world championships in 2006 and 2011. In January 2011, during broadcasting Versus' first show of the year, he gave up his 33-year career as a sports journalist to run for a seat in thePeruvian Congress.
As a supporter of theChristian People's Party, Beingolea participated at a very young age in district campaigns to return to democracy after the Velasco dictatorship, although he registered in the party in 2003. He participated in the bases of Barranco and San Isidro, beginning his career within the party ranks in the second district, managing to direct this structure by entrusting him with the District General Secretariat during the 2006 presidential campaign ofLourdes Flores, in addition to the role of National Secretary for Electoral Affairs.
Subsequently, Beingolea served as campaign manager for the 2006 regional and municipal elections.
Following his stint as campaign manager in the 2010 regional and municipal elections, he was selected to integrate the list of candidates forCongress at the2011 general election under theAlliance for the Great Change, receiving the number 10 on the list at his request. His campaign slogan was "The 10 enters the field". Elected with over a majority of 170,000 votes in the constituency ofLima, he was third most voted congressional candidate in the party's history.
During his first year in Congress, he presided over the Justice Committee; in his second year, the special multiparty tribute commission for the centenary of the birth ofErnesto Alayza Grundy andMario Polar Ugarteche; and in his third year he was elected spokesperson for the PPC-APP caucus.
At the end of his term, he announced he would not run for reelection in the2016 general election, due to the coalition between theChristian People's Party and thePeruvian Aprista Party called thePopular Alliance, which launched former presidentAlan García as the presidential nominee, alongsideLourdes Flores the as first running-mate. He made his decision public as he disagreed on the coalition.[3]
On 15 December 2016, he suffered a car accident when he was riding in a car on Caminos del Inca Avenue, in the district of Surco. The car hit a public transport bus, which caused Beingolea to jump out of the vehicle, falling into the central berm, while the co-pilot, Roger Pingo (rector of the Señor de Sipán University), died on the spot. Beingolea was hospitalized and managed to recover from his injuries.[4]
On 16 December 2017, Beingolea was elected President of theChristian People's Party, after defeatingJavier Bedoya de Vivanco in the internal election. He recognized that his party was going through the most severe crisis in its history and that a party reengineering was necessary.[5] He resigned on 15 April 2021, after the party was defeated in the2021 general elections and failing to win seats in Congress.[1][2]
Beingolea was selected as theChristian People's Party's nominee forMayor of Lima for the2018 municipal elections. He ended up placing fourth in the election with 4.4% of the popular vote, losing toJorge Muñoz, although he performed strongly in the debates against former mayorRicardo Belmont.[6]
Beingolea described thedissolution of the Congress of the Republic of Peru by PresidentMartín Vizcarra in 2019 as a "coup d'etat".[7]
For the2021 general election, Beingolea announced the establishment ofNational Unity, a party leadership roundtable of theChristian People's Party to analyze options if running in a coalition or independently in the elections. The roundtable managed to negotiate with a variety of political personalities and parties until reaching an agreementCésar Acuña ofAlliance for Progress.[8] The alliance was officially signed on 12 October 2020, but lasted only six days, upon the revelation of disconformity from PPC's leadership, most prominently from the party Secretary General,Marisol Pérez Tello, who rejected Acuña by stating "she would not support a plagiarizer".[9] Illegal audios were revealed by the press, and the alliance broke off almost immediately.[10]
Following the failed agreement withAlliance for Progress, Beingolea announced that he would run for the party's presidential nomination.[11] He formally attained the nomination on 29 November 2020.
On Election Day, Beingolea won 2.0% of the popular vote, placing 12th.[12]
