Concertación Descentralista was a
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 Pac ...
vian
electoral coalition
An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political party, political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand ...
established to contend in the
2006 national election. It comprises two national-level parties: the
Partido por la Democracia Social - Compromiso Perú (PDS) and the
Partido Movimiento Humanista Peruano (PMHP). It was formally announced on 10 December 2005, barely two days after both parties obtained formal recognition by the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, the election process authority.
The PMHP won the regional elections of 2002 for the northern region of
Lambayeque. The PDS made its electoral debut from within the coalition. The coalition candidate for the presidency was
Susana Villarán
Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima.
She is vice president of the Decentralist Soci ...
.
The political discourse revolved around
decentralization
Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and gi ...
, both political and economic, poverty reduction and state reform.
The first polls where the coalition appeared gave it 3%, in sixth position overall. Surprisingly, the candidate scored only 0.6% and came in seventh place.
The Concertación Descentralista was a supporter of the
free software
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movement.
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At the legislative elections
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held on 9 April 2006, the alliance won 0.9% of the popular vote but no seats in the Congress of the Republic. The coalition was dissolved along other parties and other coalitions that failed to pass the electoral threshold
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Election to the Congress of the Republic
References
External links
The coalition's official web sitePartido por la Democracia SocialMovimiento Humanista Peruano
Defunct political party alliances in Peru
Political parties established in 2005
2005 establishments in Peru
Decentralization
Social democratic parties in Peru
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