Martha Chávez

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Martha Gladys Chávez Cossío de Ocampo (b. January 12, 1953) is a Peruvian politician and lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2006 presidential elections on the Alliance for the Future ticket. Though she was never expected to win in the election, she performed much better than any of the other minor candidates, coming in fourth place and receiving 7.4% of the vote.

She is known as a strong ally of former president Alberto Fujimori, and her running-mate in the election was Santiago Fujimori, Alberto Fujimori's brother.

In addition to Alliance for the Future, Chávez is also affiliated with Alberto Fujimori's Sí Cumple party. Currently Chávez sits as a member of Congress representing the Province of Lima.

While Chávez backed Fujimori's own bid for the presidency, she decided to run a separate campaign after the Special Electoral Jury banned Fujimori's name from the ballot, citing a political and congressional ban on his participation in Peruvian politics until 2011.

After the self-coup on April 5, 1992, she was made a member of the Democratic Constitutional Congress, which wrote a new constitution during the Peruvian Constitutional Crisis of 1992. Elected in 1992, Chávez was the first woman to be elected President of the Congress of Peru in 1995.

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