1. Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano was born on October 7,1959 and is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as a councilwoman of Lima, Deputy from Lima from 1990 to 1992, Democratic Constituent Congresswoman from 1992 to 1995, Congresswoman from 1995 to 2000, and the Christian People's Party candidate for President of Peru in the 2001 and 2006 elections in which she ran under the National Unity.
Lourdes Flores was a professor of law and taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Law School and the University of Lima Law School between 1984 and 1989.
Lourdes Flores was the first woman to become chairwoman of a political party in Peru.
Lourdes Flores became Deputy of the Republic in 1990, representing Lima.
Lourdes Flores undertook a second run for the presidency in 2006, again occupying the third place in the voting results after being overtaken by Alan Garcia, who went to a run-off with Ollanta Humala.
Lourdes Flores is the first woman to be a major contender for the presidency in the history of Peru.
Lourdes Flores was a candidate for the mayor of Lima in the municipal elections of Lima in 2010.
Lourdes Flores obtained the second place, being surpassed by her leftist rival, Susana Villaran, by a narrow margin.
Lourdes Flores studied at the Colegio ReIna de Los Angeles and at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru Law School.
Lourdes Flores pursued graduate studies in Madrid, earning a master in legal advice at Instituto de Empresa and a doctorate in law at the Universidad Complutense.
In 1992, Lourdes Flores attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Lourdes Flores later taught commercial law at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and the University of Lima.
Lourdes Flores served for two years as chancellor of the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola.
At age 18, Lourdes Flores joined the Christian People's Party, a center-right branch of the Christian Democracy movement founded in 1966.
Lourdes Flores was an assistant to Enrique Elias Larosa, who became Minister of Justice.
Lourdes Flores was elected Deputy from Lima to the Congress of the Republic in 1990 with more than 250 000 votes.
Lourdes Flores opposed the 1992 "self-coup" of President Alberto Fujimori, organizing congressional meetings in her home.
Lourdes Flores was elected to the Democratic Constitutional Congress later that year and re-elected to Congress in 1995.
Lourdes Flores denounced Fujimori's holding of Japanese citizenship in 1997 and opposed the activities of his security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.
The unfortunate comment of his father, Cesar Flores, referring to Alejandro Toledo a few weeks after the first round, would be detrimental to the candidacy of Lourdes Flores, according to analysts, as being considered pejorative and discriminatory.
Lourdes Flores ran again as the National Unity nominee for President in the 2006 race, which took place on April 9,2006.
Lourdes Flores was disqualified by her opponents, referring to Flores as the "candidate of the rich and the wealthy", a phrase coined by Alan Garcia and his supporters against her, while members of the National Unity denounced a dirty war orchestrated by the Aprista Party and by Union for Peru to damage directly to Lourdes Flores.
In 2010, Lourdes Flores narrowly lost the election for Mayor of Lima to Susana Villaran of the Decentralist Social Force Party.