Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano (born October 7, 1959) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician[1] who served as a councilwoman of Lima, Deputy from Lima from 1990 to 1992, Democratic Constituent Congresswoman from 1992 to 1995, Congresswoman from 1995 to 2000, and the Christian People's Party candidate for President of Peru in the 2001 and 2006 elections in which she ran under the National Unity.

Born in Jesús María, Lima, Flores graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 1983, obtaining a law degree.

[3] After the fall of the regime,[4] Flores decided to run for President in 2001,[5] finishing in third place with 24% of the national vote in the first round, behind Alejandro Toledo and Alan García.

Flores undertook a second run for the presidency[6] in 2006, again occupying the third place in the voting results after being overtaken by Alan García, who went to a run-off with Ollanta Humala.

She studied at the Colegio ReIna de Los Ángeles and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Law School.

She pursued graduate studies in Madrid, earning a master in legal advice at Instituto de Empresa (currently known as IE Business School) and a doctorate in law at the Universidad Complutense.

During that election, the PPC formed part of the FREDEMO front backing Mario Vargas Llosa for president.

She denounced Fujimori's holding of Japanese citizenship in 1997 and opposed the activities of his security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.

[14] In the year 2000, Flores founded the National Unity coalition, with a center-right tendency, in order to create a single front to run for the Peruvian presidency in the 2001 general election.

In that year, Lourdes Flores rejected the April 14 strike called by the General Confederation of Workers of Peru, which had the support of APRA leader Alan García.

At the end of 2005, Congressman José Barba withdrew his Radical Change party, having discovered a fraud of false signatures by a provincial committee.