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About Mauricio Mulder
- Claude Maurice Mulder Bedoya, known as Mauricio Mulder (born 8 June 1956, in Lima), is a Peruvian politician, lawyer and former journalist.
- He has served in Congress since 2001.
- He was reelected for a fourth term in Congress, representing Lima for the APRA-PPC alliance.
- He is popularly known as Farm dog. Mauricio Mulder studied Law at the Catholic University in Lima, earning his law degree in 1978.
- From 1976 to 1977 he was General Secretary of the students' wing of the Aprista Party.
- He continued his academic studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) in Geneva, Switzerland, from which he graduated in 1985. Under the first presidency of the leader of his party Alan García from 1985 to 1990, Mulder was Chairman of the National Broadcasting Company IRTP.
- From 1992 to 1995 he was United Nations official for political issues in the El Salvador peace process.
- He was chief editor of the center-left daily newspaper La República from 1996 to 2001.
- Since 1999 he is a member of National Executive Committee of the APRA.
- From 2004 to 2010, he served as Institutional Secretary General of the Party.
- Due to Jorge del Castillo's appointment as Alan García's first Prime Minister of his second Presidency, Mulder held both Institutional and Political affairs. Mulder is considered a governing party insider, having served in Congress since 2001.
- He is considered a confrontational figure in Congress, setting motion for various controversial procedures with a fierce oratory. His tenure in office ended on 30 September 2019 due to the dissolution of Congress by Martín Vizcarra.
- He served in Congress for a total of 18 years. Currently, he is running for Congress in the 2019 Peruvian parliamentary election, in order to fulfill the interrupted term produced by the dissolution.
- He has been harshly criticized within the APRA, specially by his former colleague Jorge del Castillo, who expressed his disconformity with the primaries to which Mulder was to be subjected to.
- The party authorities led by Elias Rodriguez claim that Mulder is an invited candidate rather than an elected one in the primaries, as he was assigned the number 1 in the list for the Lima constituency.
- The controversy has risen since the revelation that Mulder's name was in the ballot for the primary election, spreading rumors that he obtained a low share of votes, and concluding that he would be in the list by invitation rather than a formal nomination conducted democratically.
- Mulder himself has denied the allegations, claiming that Del Castillo opposes his candidacy for past differences while serving in Congress, declaring his relationship to be of rivals.
