12 Facts About Luis Solari

Luis Maria Santiago Eduardo Solari de la Fuente was born on 28 January 1948 and is a Peruvian politician of Italian descent and a founding member of Possible Peru.

Luis Solari has served as Health Minister and studied internal medicine at the National University of San Marcos.

Luis Solari gained notice in his work for Catholic Church in Peru and received the title commander from the Holy See in 1997.

Luis Solari was born on 28 January 1948, the son of the Peruvian Army Brigadier General Luis Andres Avelino Solari Hurtado and Maria Carolina de la Fuente Bar.

Luis Solari's family has a political history: his grandfather, Giacomo Solari Simonetti, had to leave Italy because he was a supporter of Giuseppe Garibaldi; it had a prominent role in the Italian community of Moquegua and Tacna in the 19th century.

Luis Solari's uncle, Dr Humberto Solari Hurtado, was a Deputy for Moquegua.

Luis Solari studied with the Jesuits at the College of the Immaculate in Lima and at the Ecole Saint Louis de Gonzague in Paris while his father was Ambassador of Peru in France.

Luis Solari followed a Diploma in Strategic Political Analysis from the Universidad Iberoamericana de Mexico.

Luis Solari was Secretary General of the aforementioned party in 1995 and from September 1999 to April 2002.

Luis Solari had to lead the party's organization during its growth phase: in 1999 it had 100 committees; At the time of winning the elections in 2001, it had about 1,000 committees and a National Congress in which the majority of the votes was in the hands of the provincial secretaries.

Luis Solari was elected as a Congressman in the 2000 general elections.

Luis Solari was a candidate of the democratic parties for the Presidency of Congress in 2000.