In Peru,the people directly elect a head of state as well as a legislature. The president is elected by the people for a five-year term. The unicameral Congress (Congreso) has 130 members,also elected for a five-year term by proportional representation. Peru has a multi-party system,which effectively bars one party from becoming the sole influence in a decision-making process. As such,parties must work with one another to form coalition governments. The whole election process is held by the National Jury of Elections and the National Office of Electoral Processes. Peru has compulsory voting.
Alliance for Progress is a Peruvian political party founded on December 8,2001 in Trujillo by Cesar Acuña Peralta.
María del Carmen Calvo Poyato is a Spanish politician and author who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of the Presidency from 2018 to 2021.
JoséDaniel Williams Zapata is a politician and retired Peruvian Army general who served as President of the Congress of Peru,the head of the legislature and next in the line of succession for the Presidency of Peru. Williams currently represents the constituency of Lima in the Peruvian Congress as a member of Go on Country - Social Integration Party.
Cesar Acuña Peralta is a Peruvian politician and entrepreneur in the field of education. A controversial figure in Peruvian politics,he is the founder and leader of the Alliance for Progress party,which has achieved recognition for being the first party of provincial origin to gain electoral popularity at national level since its foundation in 2001.
Peruvians for Change was a centre-right party in Peru.
Daniel Enrique Salaverry Villa is a Peruvian architect,businessman and politician. Between 2016 and 2019,he served in Congress representing the Department of La Libertad. Elected to Congress under the Fujimorist Popular Force party,he was the party's spokesperson for a year,and was President of the Congress from 2018 to 2019. He ran as a candidate for the presidency of Peru for the We Are Peru party in the 2021 general elections.
Since 2016,Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis,initially between the President,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress,led de facto by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased,as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments,resulting with a period of political instability in Peru.
Vicente Antonio Zeballos Salinas is a Peruvian politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru from September 2019 to July 2020,under President Martín Vizcarra's administration. Prior,he served as Minister of Justice and Human Rights.
The 14th Congress of Deputies was a meeting of the Congress of Deputies,the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales,with the membership determined by the results of the general election held on 10 November 2019. The congress met for the first time on 3 December 2019,and was dissolved on 30 May 2023.
Manuel Arturo Merino de Lama is a Peruvian politician who briefly served as President of Peru for six days between 10 and 15 November 2020. He also served as the President of Congress from 16 March 2020 to 15 November 2020. He was a Member of Congress (AP) representing the Tumbes constituency for the 2001–2006,2011–2016,and 2020–2021 terms.
Luis Carlos Antonio Iberico Núnez is an Argentine-born Peruvian journalist and politician. Throughout his journalistic career,he served in various news stations during the 1980s and 1990s. He gained prominence for his fight against the Alberto Fujimori administration,denouncing several allegations of corruption involving the press. Alongside Fernando Olivera,he presented the first "Vladi-videos" that would prove the major corruption operations headed by Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos. His role in Fujimori's downfall would gain him support in a career in politics.
Carolina Lizárraga Houghton is a Peruvian lawyer,jurist,and politician who serves as a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru (PM),representing the Lima constituency.
Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra is a Peruvian politician,civil servant,and lawyer currently serving as the 64th president of Peru since 2022. She had served as the first vice president and minister at the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion under President Pedro Castillo. She served as an officer at the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) from 2007 until 2022.
María del Carmen Alva Prieto is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as the president of the Congress of the Republic of Peru from 26 July 2021 until 26 July 2022,and a member of the Congress representing Lima. She is a member of Popular Action.
Fabiola María de la Cuba Carrera is a Peruvian singer.
Waldemar JoséCerrón Rojas is a Peruvian professor and a politician.
The third presidential vacancy (impeachment) process against President Pedro Castillo was an action initiated by the Congress of the Republic of Peru with the purpose of declaring the "permanent moral incapacity" of the President of the Republic,Pedro Castillo,under Article 113 of the Political Constitution of Peru.
Flor "Hirkawarmi" Cuenca is a Peruvian mountaineer. She is the first Peruvian woman to have reached the summit of 11 eight-thousanders without using supplemental oxygen. She is also the first Peruvian to have climbed Gasherbrum I,K2 and Kanchenjunga.
