Center Front

The Center Front (Spanish: Frente de Centro) was a Peruvian political coalition formed by the parties Acción Popular (AP), Somos Perú (SP) and Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes (CNI) for the 2006 national election.[1] Its leader and presidential candidate was the late Peruvian ex-president Valentín Paniagua Corazao but following his sudden death on October 16, 2006 the coalition was headed by leader of the Acción Popular party, Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde. The alliance was unsuccessful in the presidential race. At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 7.1% of the popular vote and 5 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic.

Center Front

Frente de Centro
LeaderVíctor Andrés García Belaúnde
Founded2005
Dissolved2006
HeadquartersLima, Peru
IdeologyLiberalism
Christian democracy
Political positionCentre

History

The alliance was created to join forces for the 2006 election. As a result of the internal election, the following presidential ticket was chosen:

Paniagua had become president of Congress in November 2000 for a few days before becoming the interim President of Peru from November 2000 to July 2001, following the resignation of Alberto Fujimori and his vice-presidents. Andrade is a former mayor of Lima from 1996 to 2002. Aguirre is an entrepreneur and a former member of Unidad Nacional. Both Andrade and Aguirre also ran for Congress, under candidate numbers 1 and 3 in the Front's list for Lima.[3]

The coalition's logo, shows Peru's national colors in the background, in the style of Acción Popular's own logo, but replacing AP's shovel with a "V" similar to a check, as well as serving as the initial to Paniagua's first name and to the word for "victory" (victoria).

For the 2011 Peruvian general election both Popular Action and We Are Peru joined the Peru Possible Alliance of ex-president Alejandro Toledo.

Election results

Presidential election
Year Candidate Party Votes Percentage Outcome
2006 Valentín Paniagua Center Front

AP-SP-TPP

 706 156
5.75
 5th

Congressional election
Year Votes % Seats +/- Position
2006 760 245 8.31%
5 / 130
 5 Minority

References
  1. Repositorio, PUCP. ""El Frente de Centro no puede tener ninguna ideología"" (PDF). repositorio.pucp.edu.pe.
  2. PERÚ, Diario La República. "Frente de centro se consolida con Andrade, Paniagua y Simon". larepublica.pe.
  3. PERÚ, Diario La República. "Valentín Paniagua inició campaña del Frente de Centro en el Cusco". larepublica.pe.
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