Peru Possible

Perú Posible was a Peruvian Centro political party founded in 1994 by former President Alejandro Toledo. The party had several participations in the elections where it obtained representation in Congress and was dissolved in 2017 after failing to overcome the 5% electoral fence in the 2016 elections.

History

Perú Posible was founded in 1999 as a continuation of a party with a similar name, País Posible, founded by former congressman José Barba Caballero and Alejandro Toledo in 1994. For the 2000 elections, Perú Posible is presented for the first time with Alejandro Toledo as a candidate for the presidency. However, complaints such as those expressed by the newspaper “El Tiempo” began to emerge. He announced that 3,000 electoral records had been found and, in addition, 11 people had been arrested who were dedicated to adulterating the electoral cards. These cards included on the left side the photo of the 14 candidates for the presidency and on the right side the logo and the name of the 20 political groups whose members wanted to obtain one of the 120 legislative seats. Given this, the political party decided not to participate in the second round and, instead, called for a massive march as a form of protest against the government and the political situation that was taking place, the march known as the March of the Four Yours.

After a forced triumph due to evidence of fraud during the elections, the Fujimori government wins re-election. Toledo, meanwhile, two days before Alberto Fujimori took power again, mobilized the people in the March of his 4. The march, therefore, meant a great resistance to the Fujimori presidency and, for this reason, the Fujimori government accused Alejandro Toledo and Perú Posible as actors of violence and even held them responsible for an attack on the Bank of the Nation, in which six security personnel lost their lives. However, after Fujimori's flight due to the Vladivideos leak, elections were called in 2001 in which Toledo was elected.

Elections

Presidential

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Women Parliamentarians

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Subnationals

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Participation in situations

They participated in the 2000 presidential elections with Toledo as their candidate. In said election he came in second place behind Alberto Fujimori in a highly contested choice. For the second electoral round of that year, Toledo withdrew from the election, asking his supporters to vote blank.

In the presidential elections of the year 2000, there was great controversy. In the first round, the president at that time was Alberto Fujimori, who for the 2000 elections, had already completed his third term in the Peruvian government; however, according to the Peruvian Constitution of 1993, a President could only have two terms, however, Fujimori affirmed that he had been elected president when the 1979 Constitution was still in force; therefore, he would just be fulfilling his second term in Peru and could participate in the general elections of 2000. However, there were politicians who tried to oppose this decision. The congresswoman, from those years, Lourdes Flores Nano, together with other congressmen, looked for a way to avoid this re-election; however, they could not achieve anything satisfactory because the Congress was dominated by Alberto Fujimori.

In the second round of said elections, there was information that fraud had been detected in the elections. For this reason, Alejandro Toledo, also a candidate for the presidency, upon receiving the results of his defeat in the elections, called the citizens to the streets to what would be his March 4, which would become a show of opposition to the government of Alberto Fujimori.

After the resignation by fax of Alberto Fujimori, in an extraordinary session, the Presidency of the Republic would pass into the hands of the opposition Congressman, Valentín Paniagua, becoming President of the Transition of Peru; therefore, his most important action as President in this context, in addition to reassuring the people, was to call elections on April 8, 2001, elections which Alejandro Toledo won, becoming the country's president.

In 2001, Toledo and his political party won the presidential elections. Toledo obtained the presidency of the country with close to 52.2%, and his party obtained 47 seats out of the 120 that make up the Congress of the Republic. When Toledo's government began, the party decided to form a coalition with the Independent Moralizing Front, led by Fernando Olivera.

In 2004, Toledo was accused of forging party signatures, but the case was closed in 2005 after several interrogations of the president. The National Police of Peru declared that there were forged signatures, and the president's sister served house arrest for this case

On December 4, 2005, Perú Posible launched the independent Jeannete Emmanuel as its presidential candidate, who declined, motivating the ruling party to present the Acciopopulist Rafael Belaúnde Aubry as a candidate for the Presidency, and Carlos Bruce as First Vice President together with Rómulo A lot of Mamani for the 2006 general elections.

That same year, Jeannete Emmanuel declined to run, causing the party to present Rafael Belaúnde as a candidate for the presidency. However, in January 2006, Belaúnde resigned, causing the Political Party to only present candidates for the Congress of the Republic and the Andean Parliament.

For the 2011 general elections, they formed the so-called Alianza Perú Posible together with the Acción Popular and Somos Perú parties. On November 10, 2010, the Alliance launched the candidacy of Alejandro Toledo for the Presidency of the Republic, being the vice-presidential candidates Carlos Bruce and Javier Reátegui. However, due to many discrepancies within the party, several of the members cease to be part of it. On the one hand, there is the congressman of the Republic Carlos Bruce, who was expelled from the party; on the other hand, the general secretary, Javier Reátegui, resigns from his position. Lastly, Cecilia Tait, Wuilian Monterola, Marco Falconí, Norman Lewis and Mariano Portugal also resigned from Perú Posible due to discrepancies within the Political Party.

They won 21 of the 130 seats in the Congress of the Republic, and Javier Reátegui won 1 of the 5 Peruvian seats in the Andean Parliament.²

Between the first and second rounds of the general elections, Alejandro Toledo unrestrictedly supported the candidate Ollanta Humala to the detriment of Fuerza 2011, led by Keiko Fujimori, contributing to Humala's victory.

In June 2012, the 5 members of Acción Popular resigned from the Perú Posible bench, due to Perú Posible's support for the official candidate for the presidency of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, when he was nominated for the same position on Acciopopulist Víctor Andrés García Belaunde. In such circumstances and in response to the request of his party bases, the Political Committee and the National Executive Committee of Popular Action decided that his party would constitute its own bench. In this way, the president of Acción Popular, Dr. Javier Alva Orlandini, authorized the congressmen of his party to initiate coordination with independent congressmen in order to carry out said decision.

After that, at the beginning of June 2013, Cecilia Tait, together with Wuilian Monterola, Marco Falconí, Norman Lewis and Mariano Portugal, resigned from Perú Posible due to various discrepancies with that party.

In the 2016 general elections, by not passing the electoral fence, it lost its registration as a political party. After that, the Toledo process is opened for the Ecoteva case.⁵⁶

According to Daniel Mora, one of the causes that led Perú Posible to the debacle was the arrogance of Alejandro Toledo.⁷ Later, Perú Posible supported the candidacy of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, despite the fact that Perú Posible lost its registration by not passing the electoral fence.^{8 9} On May 12, 2016, Carmen Omonte was removed from the Lavajato Commission by her own ex-party Perú Posible. ^{10 11} At the same time, Judge Abel Concha decided to lift Alejandro Toledo's banking secrecy, as part of the Ecoteva case trial.¹² On March 12, 2017, Marcial Ayaipoma announces that Perú Posible will be liquidated for not passing the electoral fence, as mandated by the Political Parties Law.

News

Currently, Fernando Rodríguez Patrón, director of the Registry of Political Organizations (ROP) of the National Elections Jury (JNE), reported that Perú Posible is one of the political parties that have not exceeded the 5% electoral fence in the 2016 general elections. However, of all the political parties that did not reach the electoral fence, Perú Posible is the only one that has stated that it intends to refound itself. To do this, as reported by the media, Alejandro Toledo, leader of the political party, bought a kit to refound his Political Party, but now under the name of the Peruvian Chacana Political Party. For this reason, Toledo has addressed his "loyal militants of Peru Posible" through his social networks, to start collecting 800,000 signatures to be able to re-found the Political Party. The former president stated in the media that he has already carried out the pertinent procedures before the Natural Superintendency of Public Registries (Sunarp) and the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi).

However, the party was never refounded due to complaints about the Odebrecht corruption scandal and the money laundering case against the former president, in addition to his subsequent flight to the United States.