National Solidarity Alliance
Encyclopedia
The National Solidarity Alliance is an electoral alliance
in Peru
formed for the general election, 2011
, dominated by the eponymous Party National Solidarity
and led by presidential candidate Luis Castañeda.
In the 2006 election, National Solidarity Party (PSN) was part of the alliance National Unity
, led by the Christian democrats
, the UPP formed an alliance with the Peruvian Nationalist Party
to promote their leader's candidacy, Cambio 90 participated in the pro-Fujimori Alliance for the Future.
In the congressional election on April 10, the alliance won 10.22 % of the popular vote and 9 of 130 seats, placing them in the fifth position. In the elections for the five Peruvian members of the Andean Parliament, they won 9.41 % but no representative.
Presidential candidate Luis Castañeda, initially considered a favourite, won 9.83 % of the votes placing him fifth and not qualifying him for the run-off.
For the second round Castañeda suggested to vote for Force 2011 candidate Keiko Fujimori.
of Cambio 90 instead joined the small APRA
-led Parliamentary Coordination bloc.
Electoral alliance
An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc. It is an association of political parties or individuals which exists solely to stand in elections...
in Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
formed for the general election, 2011
Peruvian general election, 2011
The Peruvian general election, 2011 took place on 10 April 2011. Since no candidate received more than half of all valid votes, a second round was necessary to determine the winner. This second round took place on 5 June and determined the successor of Alan García, as well as 130 members of the...
, dominated by the eponymous Party National Solidarity
National Solidarity (Peru)
National Solidarity is a Peruvian political party. During the 2006 legislative elections the party was part of the Unidad Nacional coalition. Since the 2011 election, it has been part of the National Solidarity Alliance, led by Luis Castañeda....
and led by presidential candidate Luis Castañeda.
Constituent Parties
- National SolidarityNational Solidarity (Peru)National Solidarity is a Peruvian political party. During the 2006 legislative elections the party was part of the Unidad Nacional coalition. Since the 2011 election, it has been part of the National Solidarity Alliance, led by Luis Castañeda....
(Partido Solidaridad Nacional, PSN), liberal conservative, Castañeda's personalist vehicle - Union for PeruUnion for PeruUnion for Peru is a Peruvian political party. UPP was founded by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, ex UN Secretary General, in 1994. UPP was originally a liberal or centrist political party....
(Unión por el Perú, UPP), the centrist, social liberal core of the party, after Ollanta HumalaOllanta HumalaOllanta Moisés Humala Tasso is a Peruvian politician and the President of Peru. Humala, who previously served as an army officer, lost the presidential election in 2006 but won the 2011 presidential election in a run-off vote...
's NationalistsPeruvian Nationalist PartyThe Peruvian Nationalist Party is a political party in Peru. The ideology of the party is wrongly considered to be nationalism with strong ties to the Movimiento Etnocacerista.Ollanta Humala was the Peruvian Nationalist Party's...
left the alliance - Cambio 90Cambio 90Cambio 90-Nueva Mayoría was a right-wing Peruvian political party which entered the political spectrum in early 1990, and by June 1991 was the most powerful political force in the nation....
, the splinter of the former main force of FujimorismFujimorismright|thumb|[[Alberto Fujimori]], founder of FujimorismFujimorism or Fujimorismo is a political ideology in Peru, established by former president Alberto Fujimori.-History:...
that has not followed Keiko FujimoriKeiko FujimoriKeiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi is a Peruvian Fujimorista politician, daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. She served as First Lady, from 1994 to 2000, after her parents divorced, becoming the youngest First Lady in the history of the Americas...
to the new Force 2011 - Always Together (Siempre Unidos)
- Everyone For Peru (Todos por el Perú)
In the 2006 election, National Solidarity Party (PSN) was part of the alliance National Unity
National Unity (Peru)
National Unity was a Peruvian center-right, mainly Christian democratic electoral alliance.National Unity was founded in 2000 by Lourdes Flores Nano and was considered Peru's third largest party. The party participated in the 2001 presidential election, on 8 April 2001, when its candidate,...
, led by the Christian democrats
Christian People's Party (Peru)
The Christian People's Party is a center-right and conservative political party based on Christian Democracy. It was founded in 1966 by a group of Peruvian Christian Democracy dissidents, led by Luis Bedoya Reyes....
, the UPP formed an alliance with the Peruvian Nationalist Party
Peruvian Nationalist Party
The Peruvian Nationalist Party is a political party in Peru. The ideology of the party is wrongly considered to be nationalism with strong ties to the Movimiento Etnocacerista.Ollanta Humala was the Peruvian Nationalist Party's...
to promote their leader's candidacy, Cambio 90 participated in the pro-Fujimori Alliance for the Future.
In the congressional election on April 10, the alliance won 10.22 % of the popular vote and 9 of 130 seats, placing them in the fifth position. In the elections for the five Peruvian members of the Andean Parliament, they won 9.41 % but no representative.
Presidential candidate Luis Castañeda, initially considered a favourite, won 9.83 % of the votes placing him fifth and not qualifying him for the run-off.
For the second round Castañeda suggested to vote for Force 2011 candidate Keiko Fujimori.
In parliament
Eight of the nine representatives elected on the alliance's lists formed the National Solidarity parliamentary group. Renzo ReggiardoRenzo Reggiardo
Renzo Andrés Reggiardo Barreto is a Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Lima.Renzo Reggiardo is the son of the Italo-Peruvian, executive fujimorist politician Andrés Reggiardo. He joined his father's party Cambio 90 and served as National secretary of its youth branch from 2006 to...
of Cambio 90 instead joined the small APRA
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
The Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana is a centre-left Peruvian political party.At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic...
-led Parliamentary Coordination bloc.