Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli

Ricardo Pablo Belmont Cassinelli (born 29 August 1945) is a Peruvian TV network owner and politician. He was the Mayor of Lima serving from 1990 to 1995 and as a Congressman for the Center Front, representing Lima between 2009 and 2011, replacing Alberto Andrade, who died in office. He was popularly known as "El Hermanón" (Big Brother) for his friendliness and also as "El Colora'o" (Ginger) because of his reddish hair.

Early life and education Ricardo Pablo Belmont Cassinelli was born on 29 August 1945 in Lima to businessman Augusto Belmont Bar and Cristina Cassinelli Inurritegui. His paternal grandfather, Alejandro Belmont Marquesado, was a successful pharmaceutical industrial and founder of the Abeefe Laboratory.

He attended the Immaculate Heart school and Holy Mary Marianists school and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration for the University of Lima in 1967. However, in January 2016 he announced his resignation from the presidential candidacy because he did not accept pressure on behalf of the party's founder, Felipe Castillo, so that Isaac Humala, the father of then-President Ollanta Humala would be part of the presidential shortlist.

In 2018 he was a candidate for mayor of Lima for the Peru Libertario party. Since 2019 he has become a YouTuber and on his channel he publishes videos analyzing topics such as local politics, geopolitics, progressivism and the popular president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Belmont is currently a presidential nominee in Peru's 2026 general election under OBRAS in his second stint for the Peruvian presidency.

Electoral history Year Office Constituency List Votes % Result 1989 Mayor of Lima L.I. OBRAS 999,237 45.15 1993 977,288 44.93 1995 President OBRAS 192,261 2.58 2001 First Vice President FIM 1,044,207 9.85 2006 Member of Congress Lima Centre Front 29,157 7.90 2018 Mayor of Lima Libertarian Peru 205,716 3.89 2021 Member of Congress Lima Union for Peru 29,157 1.80 2026 President OBRAS 1,698,903 10.15