The National Solidarity Alliance ( es, Alianza Solidaridad Nacional, ASN) was an

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formed for the 2011 general election, dominated by the eponymous National Solidarity Party and led by presidential candidate

Luis Castañeda Óscar Luis Castañeda Lossio (21 June 1945 – 12 January 2022) was a Peruvian politician who was the Mayor of Lima, the capital city of Peru, from 2003 to 2010. He became Mayor of Lima again in 2015, after being elected for a third nonconse ...

Constituent Parties

* National Solidarity (''Partido Solidaridad Nacional'', PSN), liberal conservative, Castañeda's personalist vehicle *

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(''Unión por el Perú'', UPP), the centrist, social liberal core of the party, after

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Nationalists Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

left the alliance * Change 90 (''Cambio 90'', C90), the splinter of the former main force of

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that has not followed

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to the new Force 2011 *Always Together (''Siempre Unidos'') *

All for Peru All for Peru ( es, Todos por el Perú, TPP), previously named National Coordinator of Independents ( es, Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes, CNI) was a centrist Peruvian political party. Founded as a party aimed at gathering independent pol ...

(''Todos por el Perú''), liberalism and centrism In the 2006 election, National Solidarity Party (PSN) was part of the alliance

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, led by the Christian People’s Party, the Union for Peru formed an alliance with the

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to promote the candidacy of its leader

, Cambio 90 and Always Together participated in the Fujimorist Alliance for the Future. All for Peru (known as National Coordinator of Independents) was part of the

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. In the congressional election on April 10, the alliance won 10.2% of the popular vote and 9 of 130 seats, making them the fifth-largest group in parliament. In the elections for the five Peruvian members of the Andean Parliament, they won 9.41% of the popular vote but no representative to the Andean Parliament. Presidential candidate

, initially considered a favorite, won 9.83% of the votes placing him fifth and failed to qualify for the run-off. For the second round Castañeda suggested to vote for Force 2011 candidate

Dissolution

Eight of the nine representatives elected on the alliance's lists formed the National Solidarity parliamentary group.

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of Cambio 90 instead joined the small APRA-led ''Parliamentary Coordination'' bloc. The alliance formally dissolved on July 20, 2011, following Reggiardo's exit from the caucus and the installation of the session of Congress.

2016 elections

For the 2016 general elections, National Solidarity decided to form an alliance only with

led by José Vega. While All for Peru nominated

Julio Guzmán Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres (born 31 July 1970) is a Peruvian economist, politician, and leader of the Purple Party who ran for President in the 2021 general elections getting just over 2% of valid votes. He was formerly the leader of the Al ...

for the presidency but, he was disqualified due to the irregularities in his nomination process . For these elections, the alliance announced the candidacy of Hernando Guerra-García for the Presidency of the Republic together with José Luna Gálvez and Gustavo Rondón for the 1st and 2nd Vice Presidents of the Republic. However, on March 29 of the same year, the alliance decided to withdraw the presidential candidacy and it’s congressional list to prevent the political party from losing its registration with the JNE. Finally, the alliance with UPP was dissolved in 2016.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Congressional elections

References

External links

Official website of PSN (in Spanish)
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