25 Facts About Mauricio Mulder

Mauricio Mulder pursued his graduate studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Under the first presidency of Alan Garcia, Mauricio Mulder was chairman of the National Broadcasting Company IRTP.

Since 1999, Mauricio Mulder has served as a full member of the National Executive Committee of the Peruvian Aprista Party.

In 2004, Mauricio Mulder was elected institutional secretary general of the Peruvian Aprista Party.

Mauricio Mulder has since retired from politics after failing to retain his seat in the 2020 snap parliamentary elections, although he serves in his party as political commission chairman since 2019.

Claude Maurice Mauricio Mulder Bedoya was born on June 8,1956, in Lima.

Mauricio Mulder's parents were Rosa Maria Bedoya Rivera and Charles Mulder Eymann, the latter of Swiss descent.

Mauricio Mulder's paternal uncle, Frederic Mulder, was a renowned pharmaceutic who founded Quimica Suiza and Quicorp.

Mauricio Mulder completed his primary and secondary education at the Pestalozzi School, the Swiss Peruvian school of Peru.

Mauricio Mulder was admitted to the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he graduated with a law degree in 1979.

Mauricio Mulder did not finish the master's degree in international relations.

At the start of the 1980s, Mauricio Mulder began working as journalist for the Hoy newspaper, and hosted radio and television programs.

Mauricio Mulder was appointed secretary of professional caucuses of the party, serving until mid-1990.

In 1988, during the first presidency of Alan Garcia, Mauricio Mulder was appointed to the chairman of the National Broadcasting Company IRTP.

Likewise, Mauricio Mulder was elected Institutional Secretary General of the Peruvian Aprista Party at the 2004 party national convention.

Alongside Jorge Del Castillo, Mauricio Mulder served as one of Alan Garcia's main congressional leaders for the upcoming 2006 general election.

Garcia ultimately won the presidency, and appointed Del Castillo as Prime Minister of Peru, while Mauricio Mulder assumed both offices of secretary general, and was reelected to Congress simultaneously.

Mauricio Mulder stepped down as Secretary General in March 2010, being succeeded by Omar Quesada.

Mauricio Mulder constantly clashed with various government ministers during congressional inquiries, developing a reputation of a congressional fist-fighter.

At the 2016 general election, Mauricio Mulder was selected to run for a fourth term.

Mauricio Mulder's remarks were widely dismissed by pundits, viewing the end of his political career due to the perception as one of the most unpopular politicians of the term.

Mauricio Mulder was harshly criticized within his party, 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's institutional secretary general, Elias Rodriguez claimed that Mauricio Mulder was 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 rose when it was revealed that Mauricio 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.

Mauricio Mulder himself denied the allegations, claiming that Del Castillo opposed his candidacy for past differences while serving in Congress, declaring his relationship to be of rivals.