 When the state of Alberto Fujimori began to collapse, Hildebrandt was removed from the position, to avoid "to be closely tied to the regime".She was replaced by the First Vice-president Luz Salgado, and then after two quarrelled elections between government supporters and opposition, Valentín Paniagua Corazao (Accion Popular) was chosen temporarily, as the new President of the Congress and therefore as Transitory President of the Republic.In the general elections of the 2001, she was not elected, but before the reproof of Luz Salgado, was her replacement in the Congress of the Republic.