Alejandro Cavero
Alejandro Enrique Cavero Alva is a Peruvian politician who has been a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru as a member of the Go on Country – Social Integration Party since 2021.
Early life and education
Alejandro Enrique Cavero Alva was born in Lima, Peru, on 6 June 1992. He graduated from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru as a lawyer.Career
During the 2011 election Cavero worked on Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's youth campaign. He was a journalist that covered politics for El Comercio.In the 2021 election Cavero won a seat in the Congress of the Republic of Peru from the Lima province as a member of the Go on Country – Social Integration Party. He was selected to serve as Third Vice President.
Personal life
Cavero is an homosexual. On 1 December 2024, he was assaulted at the Lima Art Museum after taking a phone away from an attendee that was harassing him.Political positions
Cavero is opposed to compulsory voting stating that it increases the amount of uninformed voters. In response to prison overcrowding in most of Peru's prisons, Cavero proposed privatising prisons.Cavero stated that he is right-wing. He supports the far-right Spanish political party Vox. He called for Peru to recognise Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela after the 2024 presidential election.
Cavero supports equality for LGBTQ people on both moral and economic perspectives. In 2022, he proposed legislation to recognise civil unions, but placed limitations on same-sex adoption except in the case in which one of the partners has a child that does not have another parent.
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