The Peruvian Nationalist Party (Spanish

Spanish language

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: Partido Nacionalista Peruano) is a political party

Political party

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 in Peru

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. The ideology of the party is wrongly considered to be nationalism (because true Peruvian nationalism does not recognize the existence of nations within the Peruvian nation) with strong ties to the Movimiento Etnocacerista

Movimiento Etnocacerista

Peru's Movimiento Etnocacerista is a group of ethnic nationalists....

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Ollanta Humala

Ollanta Humala

Ollanta 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...

 was the Peruvian Nationalist Party's candidate for the 2006 presidential elections

Peruvian national election, 2006

The first round of the 2006 Peruvian national election was held on April 9, 2006 to elect the President of the Republic, two Vice-Presidents, 120 Members of Congress, and five Peruvian members of the Andean Parliament , for the 2006-2011 period.No single presidential ticket obtained more than half...

. The candidates of the party ran under the lists of the Union for Peru

Union for Peru

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In 2010, PNP formed the alliance "Gana Perú" to participate in 2011 presidential elections

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...

. In the runoff vote on June 5 Olanta Humala was elected President. He will take office on July 28, 2011.

The Nationalist Party itself describes its ideology as standing on the four pillars of Anti-imperialism

Anti-imperialism

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, Democratic republicanism

Republicanism

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, "Andean-Amazonic Socialism

Socialism

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" and Latinamericanism

Latin American integration

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. It calls José Carlos Mariátegui

José Carlos Mariátegui

José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century...

, Jorge Basadre

Jorge Basadre

Jorge Basadre Grohmann was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country...

, and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre

Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre

Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance political movement.-Life:Haya de la Torre was born in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo...

its ideological forethinkers.