Víctor Isla

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Isla and the second or maternal family name is Rojas.

Víctor Isla Rojas
President of the Congress
In office 26 July 2012 – 26 July 2013
Preceded by	Daniel Abugattás
Succeeded by	Fredy Otárola
Member of Congress
In office 26 July 2006 – 26 July 2016
Constituency	Loreto
1st Lieutenant Governor of Loreto
In office 1 January 2003 – 26 July 2006
Governor	Robinson Rivadeneyra
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Norman Lewis de Alcázar
Provincial Councilor
In office 1 January 1999 – 31 December 2002
Constituency	Alto Amazonas
Personal details
Born	Víctor Isla Rojas (1968-08-07) 7 August 1968 Santa Cruz, Peru
Nationality	Peruvian
Political party	Podemos Perú (2018-present)
Other political affiliations	Peruvian Nationalist Party (until 2016) Peru Wins (2010-2012) Union for Peru (2006) We Are Peru (1998-2006)
Alma mater	National University of San Marcos
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Lawyer, businessman

Víctor Isla Rojas (born 7 August 1968) is a Peruvian lawyer, businessman and politician. He was a former Congressman representing the Loreto region for two terms, from 2006 to 2016 and was President of the Congress between 2012 and 2013.

Education and career

From 1986 to 1992, Víctor Isla studied law and political science at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. From 1994 to 2002 he worked as an independent lawyer and outside adviser.

Political career

Early political career

In the 1998 municipal elections, he was elected provincial councilor in his home province of Alto Amazonas under the We Are Peru party of Lima’s charismatic Mayor Alberto Andrade. In the 2002 regional elections, he was elected Vice Governor of the Loreto Region.

Congressman

In the 2006 election, he was elected Congressman on the joint Union for Peru-Peruvian Nationalist Party list, representing the Loreto Region for the 2006–2011 term and after the elections, the alliance split and Isla sat on the Nationalist bench in Congress. Isla later returned to his alma mater to take a postgraduate course in constitutional and human rights laws from 2008 to 2009. In the 2011 election, he was reelected for the 2011–2016 term, this time on the Nationalist-dominated Peru Wins list. He was President of the Congress in 2012 for the annual 2012-2013 term.

Post-congressional career

In the 2018 regional elections, he ran for Regional Governor of Loreto under the newly established Podemos Perú party, but was not elected, receiving only 1.6% of the vote in the election.

External links

• Official Congressional Site (2006-2011 term)
• Congressional site 2011-2016 term
• Resume on the National Jury of Elections (JNE) site