Jaime Yoshiyama
Clemente Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician. He was the President of the Democratic Constitutional Congress from December 1992 to July 1995. He was also the Minister of the Presidency during the administration of President Alberto Fujimori.
Early life and education
Yoshiyama was born on 23 July 1944 in Huancayo, Junín to a family of Japanese Peruvians. He is graduated in Industrial Engineering. He attended ESAN University, a prestigious Peruvian postgraduate School, and graduated as a Valedictorian in 1967 getting an MBA degree. He earned scholarships to attend Michigan State University graduating with a Master in Business Administration in 1969, and Harvard University with a Master in Public Administration 1976.Political career
In July 1990 he was President of the Board of Directors of Electrolima and then President of the Committee on Privatizacion of Public Enterprises.He was the founder of the Fujimorist alliance Cambio 90 – New Majority. He was the President of the Democratic Constitutional Congress from 1992 to 1995. He was also the Minister of Transport and Communications, Minister of Energy and Mines, and Minister of the Presidency, during the first and second term of Alberto Fujimori, respectively.
Born in Huancayo, Yoshiyama ran for Mayor of Lima in the 1995 Lima municipal elections but lost to opposition candidate Alberto Andrade of We Are Lima.
In the 2011 general elections, he ran for Second Vice President under the Force 2011 ticket of Fujimori's daughter Keiko but, the ticket narrowly lost to the ticket of Ollanta Humala of Peru Wins in the runoff.