Popular Action Party (other)
Popular Action Party may refer to: * Popular Action (Peru), a populist political party in Peru * Popular Action Party (Panama) Popular Action Party (in Spanish: ''Partido de Acción Popular'', PAPO) was a Panamanian political party. Established by urban, middle-class social democrats in 1982. “''In July 1982 it joined a number of other small parties, including the PDC, ...

Popular Action (Peru)
The Popular Action ( es, Acción Popular, AP) is a liberal and reformist political party in Peru, founded by former Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde Terry. History Early history Fernando Belaúnde founded Popular Action (''Acción Popular'') in 1956 as a reformist alternative to the status quo conservative forces and the populist American Popular Revolutionary Alliance party. Although Belaúnde's message was not all that different from APRA's, his tactics were more inclusive and less confrontational. He was able to appeal to some of the same political base as APRA, primarily the middle class, but also to a wider base of professionals and white-collar workers. It also advocated scientific advancement and technocracy, a policy set that it took from the Progressive Social Movement, a splinter party which it eventually absorbed. The AP had significant electoral success, attaining the presidency in 1963 and 1980, but the party was more of an electoral machine for the perso ...
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