Julio Guzmán
{{short description|Peruvian economist and politician}}
{{for|the Puerto Rican boxer|Julio Guzman (boxer)}}
{{family name hatnote|Guzmán|Cáceres|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Julio Guzmán
| image =
| caption =
| office = President of the Purple Party
| term_start = 18 November 2017
| term_end = 30 December 2021
| predecessor = Office established
| successor = Luis Durán Rojo
| office2 = Secretary General of the
Office of the Prime Minister of Peru
| president2 = Ollanta Humala
| primeminister2 = Juan Jiménez
| term_start2 = 2 August 2012
| term_end2 = 26 February 2013
| predecessor2 = María Elena Juscamaita
| successor2 = Manuel Ángel Clausen Olivares
| office3 = Deputy Minister of Micro and Small Business and Industry
| president3 = Ollanta Humala
| minister3 = Kurt Burneo
José Antonio Urquizo
| primeminister3 = Salomon Lerner
Oscar Valdés
| term_start3 = 5 August 2011
| term_end3 = 20 December 2011
| predecessor3 = Hugo Rodríguez Espinoza
| successor3 = Gladys Triveño
| birth_name = Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|7|31|df=y}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Purple Party (2017–present)
| otherparty = All for Peru (2015–2017)
| spouse = {{plainlist}}
- {{marriage|Ximena Cáceres del Busto|1999|2009|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Michelle Ertischek|2011}}
{{endplainlist}}
| children = 4
| parents =
| relatives =
| alma_mater = Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (BA)
Georgetown University (MPP)
University of Maryland (PhD)
}}
Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres (born 31 July 1970) is a Peruvian economist, politician, and leader of the Purple Party who ran for President in the 2021 general elections getting just over 2% of valid votes.{{Cite web|last=PERÚ|first=NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO|date=2019-03-04|title=¿Quién es Julio Guzmán, el líder del Partido Morado? [PERFIL] {{!}} POLITICA|url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/julio-guzman-perfil-partido-morado-jne-noticia-613350-noticia/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=El Comercio Perú|language=es}} He was formerly the leader of the All for Peru political party, running for president for the party in the 2016 general elections, but was disqualified, due to the irregularities of the nomination process.{{Cite web|date=2016-03-10|title=Perú: Julio Guzmán y César Acuña fuera de la carrera presidencial|url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/03/160310_america_latina_peru_candidatos_excluye_guzman_|access-date=2021-05-11|website=BBC News Mundo|language=es}}
Early life and education
Julio Armando Guzman Caceres was born on July 31, 1970, in Lima. He is the second youngest of 12 children. His father, an architect by profession, came to Lima from the rural province of Anta in the Cusco Region. His mother is from Celendin in the Cajamarca Region.{{cite web|title=Quién Soy|url=http://julioguzman.pe/quien-soy/|website=Julio Guzman|access-date=3 March 2016}}
Guzman attended Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta high school in Lima. Guzman joined the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he studied economics and started a career teaching mathematics. Then he studied for a Master's in Public Policy at Georgetown University and continued graduate studies at the University of Oxford before completing his PhD in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.{{cite web|title=Julio Guzman|url=http://perureports.com/julio-guzman/|website=Peru Reports|access-date=3 March 2016}}
Professional career
He has been an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the nearby campus of the University of Maryland.{{Citation needed|reason=This claim needs a reliable source|date=March 2021}}.
Political career
Guzmán worked for 10 years at the Inter-American Development Bank as an economist in integration and trade.{{cite web|title=The Orientation of Social Spending in Latin America|url=https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/4318#sthash.4TF5hFyO.dpuf|date=September 2006|publisher=IADB|last2=Rey de Marulanda|first2=Nohra|last1=Guzmán|first1=Julio|last3=Ugaz|first3=Jorge}} He left to work as a deputy minister in Peru's Ministry of Labor in the government of Ollanta Humala. In 2012, he was appointed secretary general of Peru's Cabinet under Prime Minister Juan Jiménez Mayor.{{cite web|title=Julio Guzman|url=http://perureports.com/julio-guzman/|website=Peru Reports|access-date=3 March 2016}} Guzmán resigned from the government in February 2013.
Later he worked as a representative of the international firm Deloitte in Peru.{{Cite news|url=https://larepublica.pe/politica/1234553-congreso-pretende-perpetuar-dinastia-corrupcion|title=Julio Guzmán: "El Congreso pretende perpetuar la dinastía de la corrupción" [VIDEO]|last=Patriau|first=Enrique|date=2018-04-29|work=La Republica|access-date=2018-10-12|language=es}}
=2016 presidential campaign=
Guzman announced he was running for president of Peru in July 2015. He rose in the polls throughout the final months of 2015 until registering 5% of the vote in January.{{cite web|title=New voter poll shakes up Peru's presidential race|url=http://perureports.com/2016/01/14/new-voter-poll-shakes-up-perus-presidential-race/|website=Peru Reports|access-date=3 March 2016}} By February 2016, he had risen to 20% of the vote, second to leading candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori.{{cite web|title=Peru: Guzman emerges as Fujimori's top contender for president|url=http://perureports.com/2016/02/10/peru-julio-guzman-emerges-as-keiko-fujimoris-top-contender-for-president/|website=Peru Reports|access-date=3 March 2016}} During the campaign in February 2016, two militants from the Spanish left-wing Podemos party accused Julio Guzmán of having copied their presidential campaign.{{Cite web|last=LR|first=Redacción|date=2016-02-11|title=Julio Guzmán: partidarios de 'Podemos' de España aclaran supuesta copia de campaña|url=https://larepublica.pe/politica/740535-julio-guzman-podemos-de-espana-lo-denuncia-por-plagiar-su-campana/|access-date=2021-05-22|website=larepublica.pe|language=es-PE}}
== Disqualification ==
In February 2016, according to a statement from the National Elections Jury, the requests for modification of the electronic registration form of the National Executive Committee (CEN) and the Electoral Tribunal of the political group Todos por el Perú were declared inadmissible. On February 19, the JEE (Special Electoral Jury) ruled inadmissible the candidacy of Julio Guzmán for the 2016 Presidential Elections.{{Cite web|last=LR|first=Redacción|date=2016-02-18|title=Inscripción de Julio Guzmán es declarada "inadmisible" por el JEE {{!}} VIDEO|url=https://larepublica.pe/politica/742484-julio-guzman-jee-define-hoy-si-su-candidatura-continua/|access-date=2021-05-31|website=larepublica.pe|language=es-PE}} However, on February 24, the Lima Center 1 Special Electoral Jury approved the candidacy, after having corrected the observations made and comply with the requirements set forth in the regulations of the Electoral Law.{{Cite web|date=2016-02-25|title=Julio Guzmán: JEE declara candidatura {{!}} Política {{!}} Gestion.pe|url=http://gestion.pe/politica/julio-guzman-jee-admitio-su-candidatura-presidencial-2155148|access-date=2021-05-31|archive-date=2016-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225110251/http://gestion.pe/politica/julio-guzman-jee-admitio-su-candidatura-presidencial-2155148|url-status=bot: unknown}}
In March 2016, the National Elections Jury barred him from the election after it found irregularities in the party's internal processes.{{cite web |url=http://elcomercio.pe/politica/elecciones/julio-guzman-jne-decidio-dejarlo-fuera-elecciones-noticia-1884976 |title=Julio Guzmán: JNE lo dejó fuera de la carrera electoral |work=El Comercio |date=9 March 2016 |access-date=9 March 2016 |language=es}} A later investigation finalized in 2020 found that Guzman's disqualification was a result of corruption by the Cuellos Blancos del Puerto, a Peruvian drug-trafficking network inside the National Jury of Elections.{{Cite news|last=Romero|first=César|title=La red de "Cuellos Blancos del Puerto" también infiltró el JNE, según testigos de fiscalía|work=La República|url=https://larepublica.pe/politica/2020/09/02/la-red-de-cuellos-blancos-del-puerto-tambien-infiltro-el-jurado-nacional-de-elecciones-ministerio-publico-julio-guzman/|access-date=2020-09-07}} Guzmán has later referred to his disqualification as "the worst moment of his life".
= 2021 presidential campaign =
In 2016, Guzman separated from All for Peru and founded the Purple Party. Guzman registered the party in Peru seeking to participate in the 2021 presidential elections.{{Cite news|url=https://larepublica.pe/politica/770469-julio-guzman-anuncio-el-nombre-de-su-nuevo-partido-politico|title=Julio Guzmán anunció el nombre de su nuevo partido político|date=2016-05-25|work=La Republica|access-date=2018-10-12|language=es}} Following allegations surrounding Peruvian officials being involved in the Odebrecht scandal, Guzman stated that the "Odebrecht case is the meteor that will extinguish the dinosaurs" of Peru's political realm.{{Cite news|url=https://rpp.pe/peru/actualidad/julio-guzman-caso-odebrecht-es-el-meteorito-que-extinguira-a-los-dinosaurios-noticia-1021174|title=Julio Guzmán: "Caso Odebrecht es el meteorito que extinguirá a los dinosaurios"|work=RPP|access-date=2018-10-12|language=es}}
Personal life
In 1999, Guzmán married Ximena Caceres del Busto, with whom he has a son and a daughter. They got divorced in 2009. In 2011, he married American citizen Michelle Ertischek, with whom he has two daughters.
In January 2020, a compromising video of Guzman was released in which he was at a romantic lunch with a provincial Purple Party leader.{{Cite web|last=Palacios|first=Oswaldo|date=2020-01-19|title=Julio Guzmán sobre caso de incendio en Miraflores: No hubo infidelidad, las explicaciones ya las tiene mi esposa|url=https://rpp.pe/politica/actualidad/julio-guzman-sobre-caso-de-incendio-en-miraflores-no-hubo-infidelidad-las-explicaciones-ya-las-tiene-mi-esposa-noticia-1240536|access-date=2021-05-11|website=RPP|language=es}} A fire broke out, caused by candles that overheated a television. Guzmán was questioned for having escaped the blaze while leaving his companion behind. Shortly afterwards, he explained that "there was no infidelity and that he owed the explanations to his wife because it was a matter of a private nature" and apologized for the incident.{{Cite web|last=BOCÓN|first=NOTICIAS EL|date=2020-06-30|title=Julio Guzmán pidió disculpas por salir corriendo de un incendio en Miraflores: "Fue un error" {{!}} TRENDS|url=https://elbocon.pe/trends/julio-guzman-pidio-disculpas-por-salir-corriendo-de-un-incendio-en-miraflores-fue-un-error-nndc-noticia/|access-date=2021-05-23|website=El Bocón|language=es}}{{Cite web|date=2020-01-20|title=Julio Guzmán huyó de confuso incendio en inmueble de Miraflores|url=https://www.expreso.com.pe/politica/julio-guzman-huyo-de-incendio-en-inmueble-de-miraflores/|access-date=2021-05-23|website=Diario Expreso}}{{Cite web|title=Julio Guzmán sobre incendio en departamento: "No volví porque me dijeron que ya no era necesario"|url=https://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/actualidad/julio-guzman-almuerzo-colaboradora-partido-morado-no-fue-infidelidad-n402828|access-date=2021-05-23|website=América Noticias|language=es}}{{Cite web|last=GESTIÓN|first=NOTICIAS|date=2020-01-20|title=Caso Julio Guzmán: ¿A quién favorece la crisis del Partido Morado? {{!}} PERU|url=https://gestion.pe/peru/politica/caso-julio-guzman-a-quien-favorece-la-crisis-del-partido-morado-noticia/|access-date=2021-05-23|website=Gestión|language=es}}
Controversies
= Odebrecht scandal =
In August 2020, the Lava Jato Special Team of the Public Ministry, which is investigating the Odebrecht case in Peru, opened an investigation into Guzmán for money laundering. The proceedings will be carried out because the candidate would have received 400 thousand dollars as a contribution from the Odebrecht company for the 2016 campaign.{{Cite web|last=PERÚ|first=Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA|title=Caso Odebrecht: Fiscalía dispone iniciar diligencias preliminares contra Julio Guzmán|url=https://andina.pe/agencia/noticia-caso-odebrecht-fiscalia-dispone-iniciar-diligencias-preliminares-contra-julio-guzman-810294.aspx|access-date=2021-05-11|website=andina.pe|language=es}}{{Cite web|last=PERU21|first=NOTICIAS|date=2020-08-18|title=Julio Guzmán: Fiscal Pérez inicia diligencias preliminares por supuestos aportes de campaña {{!}} POLITICA|url=https://peru21.pe/politica/julio-guzman-fiscal-perez-inicia-diligencias-preliminares-por-supuestos-aportes-de-campana-noticia/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Peru21|language=es}}{{Cite web|last=Palacios|first=Oswaldo|date=2020-08-17|title=Caso Odebrecht: Fiscalía inicia diligencias preliminares contra Julio Guzmán|url=https://rpp.pe/politica/judiciales/caso-odebrecht-fiscalia-abre-investigacion-preliminar-contra-julio-guzman-noticia-1287118|access-date=2021-05-11|website=RPP|language=es}} Guzmán responded, "it is materially impossible that I have received money from Odebrecht" and described as "absurd" the complaint "of a third party who has the hobby of reporting everyone [...] on the basis of an interview that a ex-congressman gave on a local radio”.{{Cite web|last=Agurto|first=Ego|date=2020-08-18|title=Julio Guzmán: "Es materialmente imposible que yo haya recibido plata de Odebrecht"|url=https://rpp.pe/politica/judiciales/julio-guzman-es-materialmente-imposible-que-yo-haya-recibido-plata-de-odebrecht-noticia-1287182|access-date=2021-05-11|website=RPP|language=es}}
Electoral history
=Executive=
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! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | % ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | {{abbr|2=Position|P}}. |
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| style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2021
| style="background-color:#EAECF0;” | President of Peru | style="background-color:{{party color|Purple Party}};”| | 325,608 | 2.26% | 10th | {{no2|Not elected}} |
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