Alliance for Progress
Alianza para el Progreso
AbbreviationAPP
PresidentCesar Acuña Peralta
Secretary-GeneralLuis Valdez Farías
SpokespersonJosé Luis Echevarría Escribens
FoundedDecember 8, 2001 (2001-12-08)
HeadquartersTrujillo
Membership (2020)161,859
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[1]
Congress
11 / 130
Governorships
2 / 25
Regional Councillors
29 / 274
Province Mayorships
17 / 196
District Mayorships
169 / 1,874
Website
www.app.pe

Alliance for Progress (Spanish: Alianza para el Progreso, APP) is a Peruvian political party founded on December 8, 2001 in Trujillo by Cesar Acuña Peralta.

History

The party was founded by Cesar Acuña Peralta in Trujillo in 2001, who was elected as Congressman for the National Solidarity Party in 2000. In 2006, the party participated in the general elections of that year with Natale Amprimo as its party candidate for President with the leader Cesar Acuña Peralta as its candidate for First Vice President. The presidential ticket itself attained 0.4% of the popular vote, placing tenth.

Following the 2006 general election's poor results, Alliance for Progress lost its party registration in the National Jury of Elections alongside the rest of the parties that failed to pass the threshold in 2007,[2] but it regained its party registration the following year.

Having already established his party, Acuña, he was elected mayor of Trujillo in 2007 and was re-elected mayor in 2010. In 2014, Acuña was elected regional governor of the department of La Libertad, defeating José Murgia of the APRA but, he resigned from his position as governor in less one year to run for president in the 2016 elections in which he was disqualified for alleged vote buying.

Since 2010, the party was part of the Alliance for the Great Change, made up of the Peruvian Humanist Party, the Christian People’s Party, the National Restoration and the Alliance for Progress, this alliance was led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who unsuccessfully ran for president in the general elections of Peru in 2011. In these elections, APP obtained two of the 130 seats in the Congress of the Republic.[3]

In June 2012, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) fined the party more than 9 million soles for having received contributions ten times greater than the allowed limit from the César Vallejo University, owned by César Acuña.

In 2016, the party presented Acuña as their presidential candidate, however on 9 March the National Elections Jury barred him from participating in the general election for violating the Political Parties Law.[4] The party currently holds 22 seats in the Congress after the 2020 snap parliamentary elections, a gain compared to the nine seats the party won at the 2016 general elections.

For the 2021 general elections, the Alliance for Progress formed an alliance with the Christian People’s Party.[5] The alliance was officially signed on 12 October 2020, but lasted only six days, upon the revelation of disconformity from PPC's leadership, most prominently from the party Secretary General, Marisol Pérez Tello, who rejected Acuña by stating "she would not support a plagiarizer".[6] Illegal audios were revealed by the press, and the alliance broke off almost immediately.[7] Subsequently, the Alliance for Progress nominated Cesar Acuña once again for the presidency and, he ultimately placed seventh with 6% of the popular vote in a heavily atomized election, managing to win La Libertad Region only, the party’s stronghold, although the party achieved congressional representation, winning 15 seats, a loss of seven from the previous congressional term.[8]

Political position

The party has been described as supporting right-wing and far-right politics.[9] Following Pedro Castillo's success in the first round of 2021 elections, party leader Cesar Acuña began a campaign tour promoting Fujimorism and Keiko Fujimori titled "Crusade for Peru", creating an alliance with her and stating to supporters at a rally "I forget acts of corruption of Fujimorism" while also condemning left-wing politics.[10][11][12]

Electoral history

Presidential

Election Candidate First round Second round Result
Votes  % Votes  %
2006 Natale Amprimo 49,332 0.40 Lost Red XN
2011 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski[lower-alpha 1] 2,711,450 18.51 Lost Red XN
2016 César Acuña[lower-alpha 2] Disqualified Lost Red XN
2021 César Acuña 867,025 6.02 Lost Red XN
  1. ↑ The party was a Alliance for the Great Change electoral coalition
  2. ↑ The party was a member of Alliance for the Progress of Peru electoral coalition

Congress of the Republic

Election Leader Votes  % Seats +/– Rank Government
2006 César Acuña 248,400 2.31
0 / 120
 8th Extra-parliamentary
2011 1,851,080 14.42
(APGC)
2 / 130
[lower-alpha 1]		 Increase 2 Increase 4th Minority
2016 1,125,682 9.23
(APPP)
4 / 130
[lower-alpha 2]		 Increase 7 Increase 4th Minority
2020 1,178,020 7.96
22 / 130
 Increase 18 Increase 2nd Minority
2021 969,726 7.54
15 / 130
 Decrease 7 Decrease 4th Minority

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Peru election: Crushing blow for president's opponents Popular Force". BBC. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Infogob | Observatorio para la Gobernabilidad". Infogob.
  3. ↑ "Infogob | Observatorio para la Gobernabilidad". Infogob. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  4. ↑ "César Acuña: JNE rechazó su apelación y lo excluyó del proceso". El Comercio (in Spanish). 9 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  5. ↑ El Comercio, Redacción (12 October 2020). "Elecciones 2021: APP y PPC conforman la Alianza para el Progreso del Perú". elcomercio.pe.
  6. ↑ Gestión, Redacción (17 October 2020). "Menos de 7 días duró 'alianza' entre PPC y APP: anuncian fin de unión electoral". gestion.pe.
  7. ↑ El Comercio, Redacción (18 October 2020). "Elecciones 2021: APP rompe alianza con el PPC tras difusión de audios". elcomercio.pe.
  8. ↑ PERÚ, NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO (2021-04-14). "Elecciones 2021: César Acuña y los errores de una candidatura presidencial que nunca despegó | Alianza para el Progreso | ONPE | JNE | ELECCIONES-2021". El Comercio Perú (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  9. ↑ Noriega, Carlos (2021-11-04). "Perú: por una fiesta cayó un ministro de Castillo | La salida del muy criticado Luis Barranzuela es un alivio para el gobierno". Pagina 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-27. El fujimorismo y otras dos bancadas de ultraderecha, que operan para desestabilizar al gobierno buscando dar un golpe parlamentario, ... dos bancadas de la llamada derecha moderada -Acción Popular y Alianza para el Progreso- que suman 31 votos.
  10. ↑ Pereda, David (18 May 2021). "César Acuña: "Hoy me olvido de actos de corrupción del fujimorismo"". La Republica (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  11. ↑ "Cesar Acuña recorrerá diversas regiones del país promoviendo su respaldo a Keiko". La Razón (in Spanish). 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  12. ↑ CORREO, NOTICIAS (2021-05-08). "La Libertad / César Acuña y Keiko Fujimori sellaron alianza política | EDICION". Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-27.
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