Rolando Reátegui

Rolando Reátegui Flores (born 19 May 1959 in Tarapoto) is a Peruvian entrepreneur and Fujimorist politician and a former Congressman[1] representing San Martín between 2006 and 2019. He was previously congressman between 2000 and 2001.

Rolando Reátegui
Member of Congress
In office 26 July 2006 – 30 September 2019
Constituency	San Martín
In office 26 July 2000 – 26 July 2001
Constituency	National
Personal details
Born	Rolando Reátegui Flores (1959-05-19) 19 May 1959 Tarapoto, Peru
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Alliance for the Future Vamos Vecino Peru 2000 Popular Force
Profession	Politician Entrepreneur

Reátegui graduated from the University of the Pacific with a licence in economics, in 1987. In 1991, he opened his own drugstore in Tarapoto, which he still owns and manages and which has developed into a chain of supermarkets since 1998. Moreover, he manages a farm in Peruvian High Amazonia. From 1994 to 1995, he was the president of the chamber of commerce.

From 1994 to 2000, Reátegui was the provincial chairman of the political movement IDEAS. In 1995, he was elected to be mayor (alcalde) of the city of Tarapoto for a three-year term. From 1997 to 2000, he was national secretary-general of the Vamos Vecino party, close to then-president Alberto Fujimori. In 2000, he was elected to the Congress to represent the Fujimorist Peru 2000 alliance, however the Congress was dissolved early in 2001 due to Fujimori's resignation. In 2006, he was re-elected to Congress after a five-year absence, this time on the Alliance for the Future list. He was elected for another five-year term, in 2011 under the Force 2011, and again in 2016, now sitting with the Popular Force party but his term was cut short following to the dissolution of the congress by Martin Vizcarra.