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2001 Peruvian General Election
Early general elections were held in Peru on 8 April 2001, with a second round of the presidential election on 3 June.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p454 The elections were held after President Alberto Fujimori claimed asylum in Japan during a trip to Asia and resigned his position. The presidential elections were won by Alejandro Toledo of Possible Peru, who had been defeated by Fujimori in the 2000 general election, while his party emerged as the largest faction in the Congress.Nohlen, p468 Candidates Main presidential candidates Other candidates * Carlos Boloña, economist and former Minister of Economy and Finance (1991-1993) – People's Solution * Ciro Gálvez, lawyer and notary head – Andean Renaissance * Marco Antonio Arrunátegui, economist – Project Country * Ricardo Noriega, lawyer and economist – All for Victory Voluntarily withdrawn * Luis Castañeda, lawyer and former presidential nominee – Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique (; born 28 March 1946) is a Peruvian politician who served President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate education at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. He originally joined the technical and academic field, from where he participated as an analyst on politics and economics on some occasions. He entered politics when he founded the Possible Peru party, participating for the first time in the 1995 Peruvian general election. In 2000, he managed to become in the largest opposition leader to the government of Alberto Fujimori, before whom in the midst of a controversial and bumpy process, lost the election for a second time. After the transition stage and the return of democracy in Peru, he participated for the third time in the 2001 Peruvian general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Olivera (politician)
Luis Fernando Olivera Vega (born in Lima on July 26, 1958) is a Peruvian politician and leader of Independent Moralizing Front (FIM), a Peruvian political party. Biography Fernando Olivera (also known as Popy, after a popular 80's clown) gained some support after the fall of the Fujimori government as an anti-corruption figure, having made secret tapes public showing Fujimori's advisor Vladimiro Montesinos bribing money to Congressmen Alberto Kouri, politicians and members of the media to join Fujimori's Peru 2000 party. He and his party also have a history of confrontation with Alan García and APRA. FIM has also been ruling party Peru Possible's main ally during Alejandro Toledo's government. In September 2002, he was appointed Ambassador of Peru to Spain, a position he held until August 11, 2005. Recently, his party has been weakened due to a scandal that cost him his office as ambassador to Spain. The dismissal was allegedly due to inefficiency during his office. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
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National United Renaissance
National United Renaissance ( es, Renacimiento Unido Nacional, RUNA) is a political party in Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi .... History Originally founded as Andean Renaissance ( es, Renacimiento Andino, RA) in 1992 as a political organisation, it officially registered as a party on 19 August 2002, and changed to its current name on 15 June 2013. In 1993, Ciro Gálvez founded the Renacimiento Andino political party. He unsuccessfully ran for president in Peru's 2001 general elections, finishing sixth, and he ran as the presidential candidate of Renacimiento Andino for the general elections of Peru in 2006. On April 7, 2006, two days before the elections, he unofficially withdrew from the race, expressing his support for the candidacy of Lourdes Flores. , bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciro Gálvez
Ciro Alfredo Gálvez Herrera (born 16 January 1949 in Surcubamba, Tayacaja Province, Huancavelica) is a Peruvian lawyer, songwriter, professor of Quechua and politician. As candidate of the Andean Renaissance party, he ran unsuccessfully in the Peruvian presidential elections in 2001 and 2006. He is again running for President in the 2021 general election, this time under the National United Renaissance with Claudio Zolla as his running mate. Life Ciro Gálvez studied law at the National University of San Marcos in Lima and graduated as lawyer. He studied also Quechua at the INSUC Institute (Instituto Superior de Quechua) in Lima. He opened a notary office in Huancayo. In 1993, Ciro Gálvez founded the Andean Renaissance party (Renacimiento Andino). He ran unsuccessfully for President in 2001 and was running as Andean Renaissance's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election. On April 7, 2006, two days before the election, he withdrew from the race unofficially, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All For Victory
All for Victory (Spanish: ''Todos por la Victoria'') is a political party in Peru. At the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ... of 8 April 2001, the party won 2.0% of the popular vote and 1 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic. Its presidential candidate at the elections of the same day, Ricardo Noriega Salaverry, won 0.3% of the vote. The party didn't take part in the 2006 elections. Political parties in Peru {{Peru-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Solution
People's Solution (Spanish: ''Solución Popular'') was an electoral coalition in Peru. At the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ..., 8 April 2001, the party won 3.6% of the popular vote and only 1 seat out of 120 in the Congress of the Republic. Its presidential candidate at the elections of the same day, Carlos Boloña Behr, won 1.7% of the vote. The party didn't take part in the 2006 elections. Defunct political parties in Peru {{Peru-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Boloña
Carlos Boloña Behr (27 July 1950 – 17 October 2018) was a Peruvian economist and politician. He served as the Minister of Economy and Finance from 1991 to 1993, and again from July to November 2000 under the administration of President Alberto Fujimori. Biography Son of Carlos Boloña Roose and María Mercedes Behr Galuzzo, he completed his primary studies at the Colegio Inmaculado Corazón and his secondary studies at the Colegio Santa María Marianistas. He entered the Universidad del Pacífico, where he studied Economics. He earned a master's degree in economics from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. It was part of the Instituto Libertad y Democracia, directed by Hernando de Soto. Career He was a consultant for the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He was Director of Foreign Trade Affairs of the National Integration Office between 1975 and 1978. Public appearances In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Estrada (politician)
Daniel Estrada Pérez (January 3, 1947, in Cusco - March 23, 2003 in Lima) was a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He served as the Provincial Mayor of Cusco Province, which contains the city of Cusco, from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1990 until 1995. Estrada was then elected to the Congress of the Republic of Peru The Congress of the Republic of Peru ( es, Congreso de la República) is the unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru. Congress' composition is established by Chapter I of Title IV of the Constitution of Peru. Congress is compose ..., where he served from 1995 to 2003. 1947 births 2003 deaths Provincial Mayors of Cusco Province Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru People from Cusco 20th-century Peruvian lawyers {{Peru-mayor-stub Union for Peru politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Andrade
Alberto Manuel Andrade Carmona (December 24, 1943 – June 19, 2009) was a Peruvian lawyer and politician, born in Lima who served as the Mayor of Lima from 1996 to 2002 and as a Congressman from 2006 until his death. Education He studied at the First National School of Peru of Our Lady of Guadalupe and at the Antonio Raimondi Italian School. He later studied law at the National University of San Marcos. He studied his postgraduate degree obtaining a Master's degree in Administration from ESAN. He created the ALDA leather products company. He married Ana Teresa Botteri Herrera, had four children and four grandchildren until his death. Political career Andrade started his political career as a member of the Christian People's Party in 1983, resigning to found his own political party, Somos Lima in 1994, to run as an independent for the 1995 Municipal elections. A former mayor of Miraflores, he made many public works for this district and his brother Fernando Andrade also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Belaúnde
Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry (October 7, 1912 – June 4, 2002) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule. Early life and education The second of four children, Belaúnde was born in Lima into an aristocratic family of Spanish forebears: his father, Rafael Belaúnde Diez Canseco (1886–1972), a professor, served as Prime Minister under José Bustamante y Rivero; his paternal grandfather, Mariano Andrés Belaunde, was a Finance Minister; and one of his great-grandfathers, Pedro Diez Canseco, was also President of the Republic. He attended the Sagrados Corazones Recoleta in Lima.Novak, Fabián. ''Las relaciones entre el Perú y Alemania, 1828–2003'' (Serie Política exterior peruana). Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2004. , 9789972426346. p45 During the dictatorship of Augusto B. Leguía, the persecuti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Majority (Peru)
New Majority ( es, Nueva Mayoría, NM), was a Peruvian right-wing political party founded in 1992 for the Democratic Constituent Congress election held on the same year. and throughout the 1990s until late-2000 was the most powerful political party in Peru alongside Cambio 90, serving more as an instrumental electoral vehicle for Alberto Fujimori. History One of the three parties established by Fujimorism during the 1990s, the party ran allied with Cambio 90 for the 1992 Democratic Constituent Congress election and in the 1995 general election. For the 2000 general election, it ran under the Peru 2000 alliance, which grouped Cambio 90 and Vamos Vecino. During the 2000 elections, Martha Chávez suggested that Fujimori would dissolve Congress if Peru 2000 did not win a majority of seats.Schmidt, Gregory D. "All the President's Women" in ''The Fujimori Legacy: The Rise of Authoritarian Democracy in Peru'' (2006). University Park, PA: Penn State Press. She also said that she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
