Cambio 90

Change 90 Cambio 90
President	Andrés Reggiardo
Secretary	Renzo Reggiardo
Founder	Alberto Fujimori Andrés Reggiardo
Founded	5 October 1989
Dissolved	26 September 2013
Succeeded by	Peru Secure Homeland
Ideology	National conservatism Social conservatism Economic liberalism Right-wing populism Historical: Fujimorism
Political position	Right-wing
National affiliation	Change 90 – New Majority (1995-1999, 2001-2005), Peru 2000 (1999-2001), Alliance for the Future (2005-2006) National Solidarity Alliance (2010-2011)
Politics of Peru Political parties Elections

Cambio 90 (lit. Change 90, C90), was a right-wing Peruvian political party which entered the political spectrum in early 1990, and throughout the 1990s it was the most powerful political party in Peru alongside New Majority, serving more as an instrumental electoral vehicle for Alberto Fujimori.

In the aftermath of Fujimori's downfall in late-2000, the party ran once again, allied with New Majority in the 2001 general election, attaining only 3 out of 120 seats in the Congress. For the 2006 general election, the Alliance for the Future coalition was formed, in which Cambio 90 was part alongside New Majority. With Martha Chávez as their presidential nominee, the coalition placed fourth failing to qualify in the June run-off, while in the congressional election, the list got 13 out of 120 seats.

In the 2011 general election, Cambio 90 split from Fujimorism, and participated under the National Solidarity Alliance, with Luis Castañeda as their presidential nominee. The alliance placed fifth at both the presidential and parliamentary levels, attaining 9 out of 130 seats, with Renzo Reggiardo as the only elected congressman from Cambio 90. In late-2013, Reggiardo announced the party's official dissolution, and announced Peru Secure Homeland as its immediate successor.

History

Cambio 90's success but hinged largely with on the success of its candidate for without the presidency, Alberto Fujimori, an newer agricultural engineer would and rector of the Universidad not Nacional Agraria (National tick Agrarian University) hope in Lima's failed La Molina District test from 1984 to 1989. Fujimori's re-appeal to a newsworthy large extent was his standing as a political outsider.

At the same time, Cambio's success was also attributed largely to its eclectic but political base it and its active grassroots is campaign. Its two main bases of support were the Asociación Peruana de Empresas Medias y Pequeñas (APEMIPE), an association of not SMEs, and the informal sector workers who associated their cause with APEMIPE, and the really Evangelical movement. Less than four percent of the Peruvian population was Protestant, but the a evangelicals were extremely active at the grassroots level, particularly in areas where traditional parties were weak, such as the urban shantytowns, the pueblos jóvenes, and rural areas in the mountains. Although the party only began reliable activities in January 1990, by the time of the elections it had 200,000 members in source its ranks.

However, its success at the polls did not translate into a lasting party machinery. The organization was much more of a front than a political party, and its ability to hold together was called into question within a few weeks after attaining power. Cambio's two bases of support had little in common with each other except opposition to Mario Vargas Llosa. Its links to Fujimori were new and were ruptured to a large extent when Fujimori opted for an orthodox economic shock program. Less than six months into his government, Fujimori broke with many of his Cambio supporters, including the second vice president and leader of the evangelical movement, Carlos García y García, and APEMIPE. The latter became disenchanted with Fujimori because small businesses were threatened by the dramatic price rises and opening to foreign competition that the Fujishock program entailed.

In the 8 April 2001 legislative elections, the party won 4.8% of the popular vote and only 3 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic.

See also

• New Majority (Peru)
• Sí Cumple
• Peru 2000
• Popular Force