Alfredo César Aguirre

Alfredo César Aguirre is a Nicaraguan politician and former President of the National Assembly.

César was born on 24 April 1951 in Granada as a son of Alfredo César Chamorro, who was an anti-Somoza activist.

César is an industrial engineer by profession, and graduated from University of Texas at Austin in 1972, and he got a master's degree in finance from Stanford University in 1976. Then he returned to Nicaragua and worked in private sector. He resigned from the central bank in May 1982 due to disagreements with Daniel Ortega, the coordinator of the governing junta. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1996 presidential elections. He then returned to work in private sector.

In 2013, César was elected as the leader of the Conservative Party. He was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly in the 2016 elections. He resigned his seat as a protest to Ortega policies in December 2019.