Alberto Manuel Andrade Carmona (December 24, 1943 – June 19, 2009) was a Peru

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vian politician

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, born in Lima

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 and mayor of that city from 1996 to 2002.

Andrade who was an alumnus of Peru's Nationwide First School of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, as well as, a lawyer

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 at the National University of San Marcos

National University of San Marcos

The National University of San Marcos is the most important and respected higher-education institution in Peru. Its main campus, the University City, is located in Lima...

, started his political career as a member of the Christian People's Party

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 in 1983, resigning to found his own political party, Somos Perú in 1994, to run as an independent for the 1995 Municipal elections. A former mayor of Miraflores

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, he made many public works for this district and currently, his brother Fernando Andrade is the district's mayor.

In the 1995 election, Andrade won the elections as mayor of Lima and was sworn in 1996. During his term as mayor, he was responsible for public works such as:

• The Javier Prado Highway (turning the portion of Javier Prado Avenue between Paseo de la Republica and Circunvalacion Expressways, originally a boulevard, into its own expressway)
• Modernizing parks and squares
• Improving the city's taxicab
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• The rebirth of the defunct Downtown Lima

In 1998,his high popularity won him another term in office. In 2000, he stood against President Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori Fujimori served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 17 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with the creation of Fujimorism, uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of...

 in the presidential elections

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, but received only 3.0% of the vote, and continued as mayor.

In the 2002 municipal elections, he ran for a third term, promising to modernize transport, importing Colombian public buses, known as Transmilenio, but he was defeated by Luis Castañeda Lossio

Luis Castañeda Lossio

Óscar Luis Castañeda Lossio is a Peruvian politician who was Mayor of Lima, Peru, from 2003 to 2010.-Biography:Castañeda, who was born in Chiclayo and lived in the Casa Castañeda, is the son of Carlos Castañeda Iparraguirre and Ida Lossio. His father is remembered as one of the most important...

 of the National Unity Party

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He ran unsuccessfully for the First Vice-Presidence of the Peruvian national election, 2006

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 on Frente de Centro

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's ticket, but was elected for a seat in Congress

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He died in U.S state of Washington on June 19 of 2009 from pulmonary fibrosis

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