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Yonhy Lescano
Member of the Congress
In office
26 July 2011 – 30 September 2019
ConstituencyLima
In office
26 July 2001 – 26 July 2011
ConstituencyPuno
Personal details
Born
Yonhy Lescano Ancieta

(1959-02-15) 15 February 1959 (age 65)
Puno, Peru
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Political partyPopular Action
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Alma materUniversity of Chile
Catholic University of Santa María
OccupationLawyer


Yonhy Lescano Ancieta (born 15 February 1959 in Puno) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action. He was a Congressman between 2001 until the dissolution of the Congress in 2019.

From 1976 to 1980, Yonhy Lescano studied law at the Catholic University of Santa María in Arequipa. From 1984 to 2001, he worked as an independent lawyer in his own town Puno. Additionally, he was a professor, lecturing law at the National University of the Altiplano (UNA) in Puno, from 1985 to 2001. In 2001, he was elected to the Congress to represent the constituency of Puno, on the list of the centrist Popular Action Party. He was re-elected in 2006, on the joint Center Front coalition list, in 2011 on the list of the Possible Peru Alliance list, this time for the constituency of Lima, and in 2016. From 2009 to 2011, he served as Popular Action party's national secretary-general.[citation needed] For the 2021 general election, Lescano was nominated for the Presidency of Peru.