Pedro Spadaro

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

Pedro Carmelo Spadaro Philipps (born 16 May 1977) is a Peruvian lawyer and Fujimorist politician and a former Congressman, representing the Constitutional Province of Callao between 2011 and 2016. Spadaro served as Mayor of Ventanilla from 2019 and 2022. He is the current mayor of Callao.

Pedro Spadaro
Spadaro speaking to the Press in 2012
Mayor of Callao
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2023
Preceded by	Pedro López Barrios
Mayor of Ventanilla
In office 1 January 2019 – 21 December 2022
Preceded by	Omar Marcos Arteaga
Succeeded by	Jhovinson Vásquez
Member of Congress
In office 26 July 2011 – 26 July 2016
Constituency	Callao
Personal details
Born	Pedro Carmelo Spadaro Philipps (1977-05-16) 16 May 1977 Lima, Peru
Political party	Popular Force
Alma mater	University of San Martín de Porres
Occupation	Politician

Biography

In 2000 he graduated as a lawyer from the University of San Martín de Porres. He completed a specialization course in municipal management at the Lima Bar Association in 2001, and completed part of a master's degree at the University of Piura.

Political career

Early political career

In the 2002 regional elections, he unsuccessfully ran for a position as councilor for the La Perla District for the La Perla Independent Movement. Between 2004 and 2006 he was general manager and advisor to the Callao regional presidency, when it was occupied by Rogelio Canches. In the legislative elections of 2006 and in those of 2010 he ran, in both cases without success, for the position of mayor of the Ventanilla District, at the first opportunity by the Movimiento Amplio Regional Callao (Mar Callao), a party founded and directed by Canches, and in the second by Mi Callao.

Congressman

In the 2011 elections, he ran for a seat in Congress under the Force 2011 party of Keiko Fujimori, representing the Constitutional Province of Callao and was elected for the 2011–2016 term.

He has made several criticisms of Susana Villarán’s municipal management of Lima (2011-2014), claiming that state resources are being misused.

Mayor of Ventanilla

In the municipal and regional elections held on October 7, 2018, he was elected mayor of Ventanilla by the "Fuerza Chalaca" Regional Movement, a movement created and chaired by Omar Marcos Arteaga.