National Unity (Peru)

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National Unity
Unidad Nacional
AbbreviationUN
Leader Lourdes Flores Nano
Founded2000
Dissolved2008
Succeeded by Alliance for the Great Change,
National Solidarity Alliance
Headquarters Lima, Peru
Ideology Christian democracy
Liberal conservatism
Conservatism
Liberalism
Neoliberalism
Political position Centre-right

National Unity (Spanish : Unidad Nacional, UN) was a Peruvian center-right, mainly a Christian democratic electoral alliance.

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History

National Unity was founded in 2000 by Lourdes Flores Nano and was considered Peru's third largest party. The party participated in the 2001 general election, on 8 April 2001, where its presidential candidate, Lourdes Flores Nano, won 24.3% of the popular vote and failed to qualify in the June run-off, placing third. At the legislative elections held on the same day, the party won 13.8% of the popular vote and 17 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic.

The Party itself was a loose alliance of the constituent political parties. Its members were initially the Christian People's Party (PPC) (Partido Popular Cristiano), National Solidarity (SN) (Solidaridad Nacional), National Renewal (RN) (Renovación Nacional) and Radical Change (RC) (Cambio Radical), but the latter two left the coalition, following the 2006 general election and during the campaign, respectively. PPC and SN renewed their alliance until 2008. [1]

National Solidarity's leader Luis Castañeda Lossio ran for mayor of Lima in 2002 under National Unity's banner, defeating the incumbent Alberto Andrade, from Somos Perú and a former Christian People's Party member himself.

The party participated in the 2006 general election on 9 April, and was again headed by Lourdes Flores Nano. Flores placed third in the presidential vote with 23.8% of the vote, behind Ollanta Humala of the Union for Peru and Alan García of the Peruvian Aprista Party, and failed to qualify for the run-off in the June 2006 run-off vote. At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 15.3% of the popular vote and 17 out of 120 seats in Congress.

Last years and dissolution

In 2008, both PPC and SN decided to end the coalition. In the 2011 general election, SN (led by Luis Castañeda Lossio) decided to run for presidency under their own alliance; whilst PPC decided to integrate a new coalition called Alliance for the Great Change, led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, which participated in the elections as well.

Election results

Presidential elections

YearCandidateCoalitionVotesPercentageOutcome
2001 Lourdes Flores Medalla de Honor del Congreso a Lourdes Flores (cropped).jpg National Unity

PPC-SN-RN-CR

2 576 653
24.30
3rd
2006 National Unity

PPC-SN-RN

2 923 280
23.81
3rd

Elections to the Congress of the Republic

YearVotes%SeatsIncrease2.svg/Decrease2.svgPosition
2001 1 304 03713.8%
17 / 120
Increase2.svg 17Minority
2006 1 648 71715.3%
17 / 120
Steady2.svgMinority

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References

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