National Unity ( es, Unidad Nacional, UN) was a

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, mainly a

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History

National Unity was founded in 2000 by Lourdes Flores Nano and was considered Peru's third largest party. The party participated in the 2001 general election, on 8 April 2001, where its presidential candidate, Lourdes Flores Nano, won 24.3% of the popular vote and failed to qualify in the June run-off, placing third. At the

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held on the same day, the party won 13.8% of the popular vote and 17 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic. The Party itself was a loose alliance of the constituent political parties. Its members were initially the Christian People's Party (PPC) ''(Partido Popular Cristiano''), National Solidarity (SN) (''Solidaridad Nacional''), National Renewal (RN) (''Renovación Nacional'') and

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(RC) (''Cambio Radical''), but the latter two left the coalition, following the 2006 general election and during the campaign, respectively. PPC and SN renewed their alliance until 2008

National Solidarity's leader

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ran for mayor of

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in 2002 under National Unity's banner, defeating the incumbent Alberto Andrade, from Somos Perú and a former Christian People's Party member himself. The party participated in the 2006 general election on 9 April, and was again headed by Lourdes Flores Nano. Flores placed third in the presidential vote with 23.8% of the vote, behind

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of the

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and

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of the

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, and failed to qualify for the run-off in the June 2006 run-off vote. At the

held on 9 April 2006, the party won 15.3% of the popular vote and 17 out of 120 seats in

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Last years and dissolution

In 2008, both PPC and SN decided to end the coalition. In the 2011 general election, SN (led by

) decided to run for presidency under their own alliance; whilst PPC decided to integrate a new coalition called

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, led by

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, which participated in the elections as well.

Election results

Presidential elections

Elections to the Congress of the Republic

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