Partido Popular Cristiano
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| Party leader | Raúl Castro Stagnaro |
| founding | 1966 |
| Headquarters | Lima |
| Alignment | Conservatism , Christian Democracy |
| Colours) | Orange, green and white |
| International connections | Christian Democratic International , International Democratic Union |
The Partido Popular Cristiano (German: Christian People's Party ) is a Christian Democratic and conservative party in Peru .
The party was founded in 1966 as a split from the Democracia Cristiana Perus under the then mayor of Lima, Luis Bedoya Reyes . This makes it one of the oldest still active parties in Peru, alongside the social democratic APRA and the bourgeois center party Acción Popular . From 1968 she was in opposition to the military dictatorship of Juan Velasco Alvarado . On the other hand, she supported the presidency of the acciópopulist Fernando Belaúnde Terry and was involved in his government from 1980 to 1985. In the decision-making election in 1990, the PPC participated in the bourgeois FREDEMO alliance, which supported the candidacy of the liberal writer Mario Vargas Llosa , but Alberto Fujimori was defeated. Until 1992, the PPC, as the leading force in the Senate, carried out opposition work, after the defeat of the constitution by President Fujimori in 1992, it only played a subordinate role.
Towards the end of Fujimori's rule in 2000, the party resumed its activity and intensively pursued the replacement of the dictator. It allied with other center-right parties to form the Unidad Nacional . Her candidate in the 2001 presidential election, Lourdes Flores, narrowly missed the runoff election as third. A similar result, again with Flores as a candidate, was achieved in 2006. In 2008 the Unidad Nacional broke up and in the 2011 elections the PPC took part as the main force in the bourgeois Alianza por el Gran Cambio with the non-party leading candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski . The Christian Democrats are represented by seven MPs in the 2011–2016 Congress .
Internationally, the Partido Popular Cristiano is organized in the Christian Democratic International and the conservative International Democratic Union . The party color is green.