ELECTIONS HELD IN 1995
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| Congreso de la República | |
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| 9 April 1995 | |
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| Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament provided for in the new Constitution of December 1993. | |
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| General elections for the former bicameral Congress had been held in April 1990. This body was dissolved two years later by President of the Republic Alberto Fujimori and, in November 1992, a Democratic Constituent Congress (CCD) was chosen to draw up a new Constitution. Promulgated in December 1993, this basic law provided, inter alia, for a unicameral Congress of 120 members. Until polling for it, the CCD retained legislative power.
The congressional elections were held simultaneously with those for President. In the latter race, 13 candidates challenged the incumbent; prominent among these was Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, former United Nations Secretary-General, who offered the nation “a democratic future with social justice”. Mr. Fujimori countered by emphasising the success of his policies in turning around the country’s ailing economy and in fighting terrorist rebels (especially the Shining Path guerrilla group) since taking office in July 1990. In this connection, he characterised his free-market programme and a hard-line law-and-order approach as the key to economic and political stability, and promised to expand social programmes and tackle the high unemployment rate. In 1994, Peru’s gross domestic product had reportedly risen by some 12% - one of the highest growth rates in the world. At the same time, runaway inflation had been tamed and foreign investment had markedly increased. On a peaceful polling day monitored by both international and national observers and marked by a high turnout, President Fujimori won an outright absolute majority, thus avoiding the need for a second round. Mr. de Cuellar, for his part, obtained only some 22% and alleged irregularities, as did others in the opposition in light of a fraud scandal uncovered just before the vote; the observers, however, deemed the balloting fair. In the congressional races, which saw over 2300 candidates from 24 parties vying for the 120 seats at stake, the President was likewise victorious, as the ruling New Majority-Change 90 (NM-C90) alliance captured 67 seats – another absolute majority. The Union for Peru (UPP), which had supported Mr. de Cuellar, came in second ahead of 11 other groups which gained representation. The overall outcome signalled a rejection of extremist parties and of the country’s “traditional” politics run by three historic parties: the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), Popular Action (AP) and the Popular Christian Party (PPC). It also attested to the popularity of Mr. Fujimori who, due to constitutional reforms, was the first President to win re-election. In order to complete the term of the previous Congress, the CCD sat until 26 July 1995. The Council of Ministers is headed by Prime Minister Efrain Goldemberg Schreiber. |
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STATISTICS
| Round no 1 (9 April 1995): Elections results | |
| Number of registered electors | 12,421,785 |
| Round no 1: Distribution of votes | |||
| Political Group | Votes | % | |
| New Majority-Change 90 (NM-C90) | 2,277,423 | 52.10 | |
| Union for Peru (UPP) | 611,804 | 14.00 | |
| American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) | 285,526 | 6.53 | |
| Independent Moralising Front (FIM) | 213,777 | 4.89 | |
| Code – Pais Posible | 181,397 | 4.15 | |
| Popular Action (AP) | 146,018 | 3.34 | |
| Popular Christian Party (PPC) | 135,238 | 3.09 | |
| Renovation | 130,060 | 2.98 | |
| Movimiento Obras | 87,252 | 2.00 | |
| United Left (UI) | 82,061 | 1.88 | |
| Peru Towards 2000 | 48,728 | 1.11 | |
| Popular Agricultural Front (FPA) | 46,990 | 1.08 | |
| Independent Agrarian Movement (MIA) | 34,463 | 0.79 | |
| Round no 1: Distribution of seats | |||
| Political Group | Total | ||
| New Majority-Change 90 (NM-C90) | 67 | ||
| Union for Peru (UPP) | 17 | ||
| American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) | 8 | ||
| Independent Moralising Front (FIM) | 6 | ||
| Code – Pais Posible | 5 | ||
| Popular Action (AP) | 4 | ||
| Popular Christian Party (PPC) | 3 | ||
| Renovation | 3 | ||
| Movimiento Obras | 2 | ||
| United Left (UI) | 2 | ||
| Peru Towards 2000 | 1 | ||
| Popular Agricultural Front (FPA) | 1 | ||
| Independent Agrarian Movement (MIA) | 1 | ||
| Distribution of seats according to sex: | |
| Men: | 108 |
| Women: | 12 |
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