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Peruvian Political Crisis (2016–present)
Since 2016, Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis, initially between the President of Peru, President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress of Peru, Congress, led ''de facto'' by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased, as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments, resulting with a period of political instability in Peru. Afflicted by corruption, Congress launched an First impeachment of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, attempt to remove President Kuczynski from power in December 2017, which failed. Following the emergence of a Mamanivideos scandal, vote buying scandal related to the pardon of Alberto Fujimori in March 2018, Kuczynski resigned under pressure of impeachment. Kuczynski's successor Martín Vizca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west, to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country, to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Peru has Demographics of Peru, a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At , Peru is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 19th largest country in the world, and the List of South American countries by area, third largest in South America. Pre-Columbian Peru, Peruvian territory was home to Andean civilizations, several cultures during the ancient and medieval periods, and has one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purple Party
The Purple Party (, PM) is a centrist, liberal, and progressive political party in Peru. The color purple was chosen to represent the blending of red and blue, the colors of left and right-wing parties in Peru, symbolizing the centrist ideology of the party. History On 17 October 2016, Julio Guzmán led the First Purple Summit in Lima, Peru, announcing the organization's first steps towards making a party. More than 1,000 individuals participated in establishing guidelines for the political movement. At the Second Purple Summit ( 14–15 October 2017), held in Cusco, with the participation of more than 1,000 national representatives, the presentation of their file for party registration with the corresponding Peruvian body was reported. On 18 November 2017, the party was officially founded. At the Third Purple Summit ( 13–14 October 2018), held in Ayacucho, where more than 1,300 representatives from all over the country attended, the registration and consolidation work of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Peru
New Peru for Good Living (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Nuevo Perú por el Buen Vivir'') is a left-wing Peruvian political party founded in 2017 as a splinter caucus of the Broad Front (Peru), Broad Front for the Historical Composition of the Peruvian Congress, 2016–2019 Peruvian Congress. It has embraced socialism and some of the ideologies of José Carlos Mariátegui, a Peruvian Marxism, Marxist. History The party was informally founded on 9 December 2017 in Lima, Metropolitan Lima. The current President is Verónika Mendoza and the current Secretary-General is Álvaro Campana. The spokesperson for New Peru is Edgar Ochoa. New Peru had 10 seats in the Congress of the Republic of Peru who separated from the Broad Front (Peru), Broad Front coalition upon its formation. The group was legally recognized in September 2017. The movement is in the process of being registered as a political party to formally participate in the 2021 Peruvian general election, 2021 general election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together For Peru
Together for Peru () is a Peruvian Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politics, left-wing Political alliance, political coalition founded with the incumbent registration of the Peruvian Humanist Party. Formally a registered political party, the coalition participated in the 2021 Peruvian general election, 2021 general election with New Peru's leader, Verónika Mendoza, as presidential nominee. In the aftermath of the unsuccessful presidential run, the coalition endorsed Pedro Castillo's nomination in the runoff against Keiko Fujimori. Upon the proclamation of Castillo's victory, Together for Peru was invited to join the new left-wing government led by Free Peru. Currently, the coalition sits as a junior member of Castillo's administration by holding two cabinet positions, the most prominent being the Ministry of Foreign Commerce and Tourism (Peru), Ministry of Foreign Commerce and Tourism, occupied by the coalition's president, Roberto Sánchez Palomino. History Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicentennial Peru
The Bicentennial Peru () is a left-wing parliamentary group of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. Formed in June 2022, it brings together deputies from Free Peru. The group declares itself independent but supports the actions of President Pedro Castillo. History The president and first spokesperson Jorge Marticorena, the parliamentarian behind the creation of the group, decides to resign from the group of Free Peru as of 26 May 2022, when the Congress of the Republic approves the non-confidence motion of Minister Betssy Chávez. Due to the governmental crisis of May 2022, and the wave of resignations and the different lines within the group of Free Peru (the creation of the BECN group), the three congressmen Jorge Coayla, Elías Varas and Víctor Cutipa also decide to leave Free Peru. On 8 May, the parliamentarian José María Balcazar also announces his resignation from the parliamentary group of Free Peru. On the same day, the five congressmen who resigned due to the ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magisterial Bloc Of National Concertation
The Magisterial Bloc of National Concertation (; BMCN) is a left-wing parliamentary group of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. Formed in 14 May 2022, it brings together several dissident legislators from Peru Libre. The group was classified as pro- Castillo administration. History Foundation On May 11, 2022, ten congressmen from the Free Peru parliamentary group announced their resignation due to a disagreement over the election of the new magistrates of the Constitutional Court, without prior discussion. However, congresswoman and former minister Katy Ugarte contests the resignation after this event, but alludes to a group agreement that had been prepared for a long time, and whose press conference was scheduled for the same day. According to the elected official, "they got ahead of us" (referring to the media, having disclosed the information and resignation letters). On May 14, the ten resigning congressmen, from the "teaching wing" of the Peru Libre party, announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Peru
Democratic Peru (; PD) is a parliamentary group of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. Formed in January 2022, it brings together several congressmen from three parties. Being the first "minority", the group joined the government from February 2022. History On January 7, 2022, five former parliamentarians from Free Peru, We Are Peru and Popular Action asked the president of Congress, Maricarmen Alva, to create a parliamentary group. The first five members include Héctor Valer, Hamlet Echevarría, Carlos Zeballos, Luis Kamiche and Guillermo Bermejo. On January 10, a few days after the creation of the parliamentary group, the then Minister of Labour, Betssy Chávez, announced that she would join the group. On January 14, after a meeting with Pedro Castillo, President Héctor Valer declared his parliamentary group neither in opposition nor in favor of the government, but only in favor of a Constituent Assembly. On February 1, 2022, Héctor Valer was appointed President of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Peru
Free Peru (), officially the Free Peru National Political Party (), is a Marxist political party in Peru. Founded in 2008 as the Free Peru Political Regional Movement, the party was officially constituted as a national organization in February 2012 by the name of Libertarian Peru. It was registered as a political party in January 2016 and adopted its current name, Free Peru, in January 2019. Its presidential candidate Pedro Castillo won the 2021 Peruvian general election against Popular Force nominee Keiko Fujimori. Free Peru has the third most seats in the Congress of Peru, with 11 out of 130 total representatives; however, its opposition continued to rule Congress after forming a larger alliance of seats led by the Popular Action party. Free Peru is a participant in the São Paulo Forum, an annual conference of leftist parties in the Americas. History The party was founded in August 2008 by former Junín governor Vladimir Cerrón. Cerrón had been elected in 2018 for a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambio 21 (political Party)
Change 21 () was a parliamentary group for the congressional term of 2016 to 2021 in the Congress of Peru. The group was introduced on 20 March 2018, led by then-congressman Kenji Fujimori, and was formally recognized on 19 December of the same year by the President of Congress Daniel Salaverry. Its members are former members of Popular Force. The parliamentary group was disbanded following the dissolution of the Congress on 30 September 2019 by President Martin Vizcarra. History On 21 December 2017, proposals to impeach President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski reached the floor of Congress. Ultimately, the proposal to impeach the president failed as 10 members of the majority opposition party Popular Force voted against removing Kuczynski from the presidency. On 31 December 2017, the party's Disciplinary Committee recommended dismissing the ten members from Popular Force. On 1 March 2018, following dismissal from the party, Kenji Fujimori resigned from the leadership of the Fujimo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruvian Nationalist Party
Peruvian Nationalist Party (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Partido Nacionalista Peruano;'' PNP) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to left-wing politics, left-wing political party in Peru. History The Nationalist Party had as its antecedent the Ethnocacerism, Peruvian Nationalist Movement. The party was originally conceived to be the main political expression of the ethnocacerist ideology, though the ideology was renounced by party founder Ollanta Humala in 2006. Ollanta Humala was the Peruvian Nationalist Party's presidential nominee for the 2006 Peruvian national election, 2006 general election, running under a joint ticket with Union for Peru, as the party was not registered on time for the election. Humala lost the runoff against Alan García of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, Peruvian Aprista Party. However, the alliance with the Union for Peru would be dissolved, and the members of the Nationalist Party would form the Nationalist bench made up of 25 Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Front (Peru)
The Broad Front for Justice, Life and Liberty (),El Frente Amplio for Justicia, Vida y Libertad: datos generales ("general data"), ''Observatorio para la Gobernabilidad'' (in Spanish language, Spanish) or simply Broad Front (), is a major Political alliance, political coalition of parties, political organizations, social movements and activist citizens of Peru whose main objective is to consolidate the different Left-wing politics, leftist, progressive, Socialism, socialist and Communism, communist sectors. It was founded in June 2013. It had its origin in the Encounter of Social and Political Organizations held in 2007 and its initial objective was to promote the defense of the territories. It has been part of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, Congress of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Victory
National Victory (, VN), is a Peruvian political party. Founded in late-2020, the party is the successor of the former National Restoration Party, founded and led by former evangelical pastor Humberto Lay. History In mid-2019, Humberto Lay resigned from the leadership of National Restoration, the party underwent a formal reorganization that involved a re-foundation with a name-change. After multiple talks with different political leaders, the party reached an agreement with former footballer George Forsyth in order to reorganize the party. In October 2020, the party announced its re-foundation under Forsyth's leadership, thus effectively dissolving National Restoration, and establishing National Victory. Subsequently, the party nominated Forsyth for President for the 2021 general election, but was disqualified on 10 February 2021. However, the disqualification was revoked by the National Jury of Elections on 5 March 2021, following to an appeal. On Election Day, Forsyth plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
