Christian People's Party (Peru)
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Christian People's Party
Partido Popular Cristiano |
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| President | Raúl Castro Stagnaro |
| Secretary | Rafael Yamashiro Oré |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Split from | Christian Democracy |
| Headquarters | Alfonso Ugarte 1484, Lima, Peru |
| Ideology |
Christian democracy Conservatism |
| Political position | Center-right |
| International affiliation |
Christian Democrat International, International Democrat Union |
| Regional affiliation | Union of Latin American Parties |
| Colors | Green and Red |
| Seats in the Congress |
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The Christian People's Party (Spanish: Partido Popular Cristiano) is a center-right and conservative political party based on Christian Democracy. It was founded in 1966 by a group of Peruvian Christian Democracy (Democracia Social Cristiana) dissidents, led by Luis Bedoya Reyes. In 2000 its inscription was renewed, and it became part of National Unity, albeit not in a permanent basis.
Leaders of the party have included Mario Polar Ugarteche, Roberto Ramírez del Villar, Ernesto Alayza Grundy, Felipe Osterling Parodi, and Alberto Borea Odría.
The party was founded on December 18, 1966 by a group of members of the Democracia Cristiana party that defected by ideological motifs. While their former party supported a constitutional break to accelerate the reforms needed by the country, the founders of the PPC, led by Luis Bedoya Reyes still believed in the constitutional order. Thus they retired from Democracia Cristiana and founded the new party.
In 1968, General Juan Velasco Alvarado staged a coup d'etat against President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, an ally of Luis Bedoya Reyes. The PPC did not support the military regime and was one of its most fierce opponents, along with the Partido Aprista Peruano (APRA). The latter was declared illegal.
In 1979 the government of General Francisco Morales Bermúdez called for elections for a Constituent Assembly. The PPC attained the second place in the polls, after the APRA. Bedoya Reyes, widely preferred by the Assembly members to become its president, gave the position to the veteran APRA leader, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.
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