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Popular Renewal Renovación Popular | |
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| Abbreviation | RP |
| President | Rafael López Aliaga |
| Secretary-General | Gustavo Pacheco |
| Founder | Rafael López Aliaga |
| Founded | 7 October 2020 |
| Preceded by | National Solidarity |
| Headquarters | Calle Costa Rica N° 157 – Jesús María, Lima |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Sky blue |
| Congress | 11 / 130 |
| Governorships | 0 / 25 |
| Regional Councillors | 2 / 274 |
| Province Mayorships | 2 / 196 |
| District Mayorships | 36 / 1,678 |
| Party flag | |
| Website | |
| renovacionpopular.pe | |
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Popular Renewal (Spanish: Renovación Popular, RP) is a neo-fascist far-right Peruvian political party. Founded in 2020, the party is the successor of the former National Solidarity Party founded and led by former Lima Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio. Following its poor results at the 2020 snap parliamentary election, leader Rafael López Aliaga announced the party's re-foundation under the Popular Renewal.[2]
As Rafael López Aliaga was elected in mid-2019 as Secretary General of National Solidarity following Luis Castañeda's resignation due to the pretrial detention on the Odebrecht scandal in Peru, the party shifted to a Christian conservative ideology and support for the current constitution of 1993. At the 2020 parliamentary election, National Solidarity received 1.5% of the popular vote, placing nineteenth out of twenty-one participating lists, thus failing to attain representation.[3] Following its poor results in the election, the party underwent a formal reconstruction.[4] During this period, Rafael López Aliaga formally announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2021 general election, stating that he intended to gather all possible support from the country's conservative circles.[5]
Under this new platform, López Aliaga announced the dissolution of National Solidarity, effectively re-founding the party under the name Popular Renewal, in October 2020.[6] Assuming the position of party president, he stated that the party is "re-founded with principles of solidarity and anchored in God, Christ."[7]
The party's name-change was officially recognized in December 2020.[8] Simultaneously, López Aliaga was formally declared the party's presidential nominee for the 2021 general election, alongside Neldy Mendoza, chair of the Family and Life Institute, and Jorge Montoya, former Joint Command Chief, as his first and second running mates.[9] López Aliaga affirmed that there will be no alliances with other political parties for those elections,[10] he also announced that the proposals they give will be based on five axes: health, work, security, education and anti-corruption.[11]
On Election Day, Lopez Aliaga placed third in a race of 18 candidates, while in the congressional election, the party gained 13 seats being the third most voted party and the fifth largest force in Congress.
Popular Renewal holds onto an ultraconservative platform, mainly based in opposition to abortion, LGBT rights, and "gender ideology".[12] It has been described as holding a far-right[13] or fascist[14] and neo-fascist political position.[15] Its members in the Congress of Peru have been described as being part of a "far-right" bloc allied with Go on Country and Popular Force.[16] Internationally, the party has aligned with far-right groups, with Peruvian investigative journalism website OjoPúblico writing in an article discussing far-right alliances in the Americas that members of the far-right Spanish political party Vox travelled to Peru to obtain signatures for the anti-leftist manifesto known as the Madrid Charter, with Popular Renewal, along with the parties Go on Country of Hernando de Soto and Popular Force of Keiko Fujimori, signing the document.[17][18][19]
López Aliaga also opposed the secret effective collaboration agreement with the Odebrecht company, considering it a "harmful issue" for the Peruvian government.[20] He has also been against controversial businessmen such as José Graña and Jorge Barata.[21]
| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 2021 | Rafael López Aliaga | 1,692,279 | 11.75 | Lost | ||
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Congress | +/– | Rank | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Rafael López Aliaga | 1,199,705 | 9.33 | 13 / 130
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En materia económica, el presidente del partido lo definió como "derecha popular", puntualizando que, si bien está basado en el modelo económico neoliberal, este no es "inmutable" y en ocasiones "necesita ser regulado" (Redacción La Razón 2, 2020)
el partido de ultraderecha Renovación Popular
el ultraderechista Renovación Popular
the far-right Popular Renewal
El militar pertenece a la agrupación Avanza País, partido que junto al fujimorismo y la neofascista Renovación Popular forma el bloque de la extrema derecha.
Después de 90 años de la presencia de Unión Revolucionaria -Luis M. Sánchez Cerro (1889-1933) y Luis Alberto Flores (1899-1969)- entra en la escena política peruana una nueva organización fascista. Nombre: Renovación Popular. Conductor: Rafael López-Aliaga Cazorla (1961). Un nuevo millonario, expresión de la lumpen burguesía emergente. Esta nueva clase surgió, en los últimos 40 años, como producto del lumpen desarrollo que imprime el capitalismo en el Perú.[After 90 years of the presence of the Revolutionary Union -Luis M. Sánchez Cerro (1889-1933) and Luis Alberto Flores (1899-1969)- a new fascist organization enters the Peruvian political scene. Name: Popular Renewal. Leader: Rafael López-Aliaga Cazorla (1961). A new millionaire, expression of the emerging lumpen bourgeoisie. This new class emerged in the last 40 years as a product of the lumpen development imposed by capitalism in Peru.]
And this is not only happening with the emergence of fascist parties such as Renovación Popular, the addition to this reactionary worldview by Fujimorism (which was never democratic, not even when its leader went to Harvard to lie with the backing of certain naive political scientists), or the emboldening of fascist movements such as La Pestilencia, Los Insurgentes, etc.
El líder político de la ultraderecha fascista, Rafael López Aliaga.[The political leader of the fascist far-right, Rafael López Aliaga.]
Hoy el asesino Williams es legislador del partido ultraconservador Avanza País, aliado en el Congreso del partido fujimorista Fuerza Popular y de la agrupación fascista Renovación Popular.
La capital del Perú será gobernada por la ultraderecha. En un final voto a voto, el acaudalado empresario del partido fascista Renovación Popular
A far-right sector also voted against it. They were the legislators of the fascist Popular Renewal party.
See "Tabulka: strany, populismus a caudillismus v posledních parlamentních volbách [table: parties, populism and caudillism in the last parliamentary elections]"
El militar pertenece a la agrupación Avanza País, partido que junto al fujimorismo y la neofascista Renovación Popular forma el bloque de la extrema derecha.
The far-right parties in Congress -- Renovacion Popular (Popular Renewal) and Avanza Pais (Forward Country)
The far right, personified in Congress by 43 representatives of the groups Fuerza Popular, Renovación Popular and Avanza País and some of their center allies
Far-right: Fuerza Popular since then marked its line of voting against all the cabinets that Pedro Castillo names from now on. ... To these votes against were added those of Popular Renewal and Avanza País
tres partidos de derecha radical -Fuerza Popular, Renovación Popular y Avanza País