American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana |
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President | None |
Secretary-General |
Jorge del Castillo Omar Quesada |
Spokesperson | Mauricio Mulder |
Founder | Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre |
Founded | May 7, 1924Mexico) September 20, 1930 (Peru) |
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Headquarters | Av. Alfonso Ugarte N° 1012, Lima, Perú |
Ideology | Social democracy |
Political position | Centre-left |
International affiliation | Socialist International |
Seats in Congress |
5 / 130
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Governorships |
0 / 25
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Regional Councillors |
5 / 274
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Provincial Mayors |
3 / 196
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Website | |
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The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance - Peruvian Aprista Party (Spanish: Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana - Partido Aprista Peruano) ( listen ) is a centre-left Peruvian political party.
At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic. Its presidential candidate at the elections of the same day, Alan García, won 22.6% of the vote and went on to win the second round on 4 June 2006 with 52.6%.
APRA was founded by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre in Mexico City on 7 May 1924 with aspirations to becoming a continent-wide party, and it subsequently influenced a number of other Latin American political movements, including Bolivia's Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, MNR) and Costa Rica's National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación Nacional, PLN).