Since 2001 he was former President Alberto Fujimori’s lawyer in Peru, in association with the criminal attorney César Nakasaki, in which the defense which was taken over by another lawyer, in 2013.[1]
In the 2006 elections, he was elected as a Congressman, representing the constituency of Lima for the 2006-2011 term after getting 38,578 votes, in which he also ran unsuccessfully for the second vice presidency as the running mate of Congresswoman Martha Chávez under the FujimoristAlliance for the Future, in which, the ticket placed fourth.
Congressman
As of August 3, 2006, the Board of Spokesmen of the Congress of the Republic, and the multiparty table (which decides the organization of the various working committees in Congress) appointed him as coordinator of the Committee on Foreign Affairs . Traditionally, the coordinators later become committee chairmen.
This table was mainly comprised by the APRA and UN parties; however, the decision was unanimous. Rolando Sousa also chaired the Committee on Justice and Human Rights of the Congress for two consecutive periods, while in Congress. He served as Congressman until July 26, 2011.[citation needed]
Representative to the Andean Parliament
He ran for a seat in the Andean Parliament in the 2016 general election under the ticket of the Popular Force party of Keiko Fujimori and was No. 1 in the list and was elected to the Andean Parliament for the 2016-2021 term as he received the highest individual number of votes in the election. He took office on July 26, 2016 and left office on July 26, 2021.
