Fausto Alvarado

In the 2011 Peruvian general election, he participated in the technical team of Possible Peru of Alejandro Toledo.

In February 2004, he resigned from the position of Minister of Justice, after which he returned to his work as a parliamentarian, being elected First Vice President of Congress in the period 2005–2006.

On 27 July 2002, he was appointed Minister of Justice by President Alejandro Toledo; as such, he carried out a modernization of the justice sector, among his achievements the awarding in favor of the General Archive of the Nation of the old post office of the Central Post, the issuance of the Criminal Procedure Code (President of the Review Commission), the creation of CERIAJUS (Special Commission for Integral Reform of the Administration of Justice), the elaboration of the National Penitentiary Treatment Plan and the Recommendations for Legal Physical Sanitation and Informal Property Titling. As well as the signing of the UN International Convention for the fight against corruption.

Then he joined the Independent Moralizing Front (IMF) led by Fernando Olivera Vega. In the 2001 general election he was elected Congressman of the Republic with 39,341 votes. As such, he presided over the Irregular Influence Investigation Commission exercised during the administration of Alberto Fujimori over the Judiciary, the Public Ministry and other State Powers and Institutions related to the Administration of Justice.

He was a member of the Solidarity and Democracy (SODE) party, of which he was president (1988–1994). He nominated the Chamber of Deputies in the general elections of 1990, being elected as Deputy of the Republic by Lima Provinces; however, his parliamentary work was interrupted by the closure of Congress in April 1992.

Fausto Alvarado (12 July 1950 – 15 September 2019) was a Peruvian lawyer, politician and historian. He was Congressman of the Republic (1990–1992 and 2001–2006) and Minister of Justice (2002–2004).