Union for Peru

Union for Peru (Spanish: Unión por el Perú) is a Peruvian political party founded by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, an ex-UN Secretary General, in 1994 to run for the Presidency of Peru in the 1995 General elections. Originally a liberal-centrist party with some centre-left factions, the party became the main political home of the Peruvian ethnocacerist movement in the late-2010s after a group led by former Army Major Antauro Humala joined the party. Humala later formed the Patriotic Front in 2018 and set a goal for contesting the 2021 general elections, although it is unclear if Union for Peru will participate alongside it.

Union for Peru Unión por el Perú
Leader	Aldo Estrada Choque
Secretary-General	José Vega Antonio
Founded	21 September 1994
Headquarters	Lima, Peru
Ideology	Majority: Populism Ethnocacerism Factions: Progressivism Reformism[1]
Political position	Left-wing (economic issues) Right-wing (military and social issues)
Colors	Indigo, Red, Orange
Congress	9 / 130
Governorships	0 / 25
Regional Councillors	4 / 274
Province Mayorships	1 / 196
District Mayorships	17 / 1,874
Website
upp.pe
Politics of Peru Political parties Elections

At the elections held on 9 April 2000, the party nominated former first vice president Máximo San Román as the presidential candidate but he performed poorly in the elections placing last but the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and 3 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic a decrease of 14 compared to the last elections.

At the elections held on 8 April 2001, the party won 4.1% of the popular vote and 6 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic.

In the 2006 elections, Union for Peru aligned itself with the Peruvian Nationalist Party and endorsed Ollanta Humala, who faced Alan García in the presidential runoff election. The alliance won with 21.2% of popular vote, and 45 out of 120 seats in the Congress.

In the 2011 elections, the party joined forces with the National Solidarity Alliance to support the presidential candidacy of former Lima Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio. The party would retain its alliance with the National Solidarity Party in the 2016 elections as well, jointly nominating Hernando Guerra García but the ticket withdrew due to its low support at national polls. In the 2020 snap parliamentary elections, the party won 6.77% of the vote and 13 seats out of 130 seats in the Congress.

The party's current Secretary-General is José Vega Antonio.