Communist Party of Peru - Red Fatherland

Communist Party of Peru - Red Fatherland (in Spanish

Spanish language

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: Partido Comunista del Perú - Patria Roja) is a political party

Political party

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in Peru

Peru

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founded in 1970, through a split in the Peruvian Communist Party - Red Flag. It is led by Alberto Moreno

Alberto Moreno

Alberto Moreno Rojas del Río is a left-wing Peruvian politician. He is the general secretary of the Communist Party of Peru and the president of the Movimiento Nueva Izquierda - New Left Movement....

, Jorge Hurtado Pozo and Rolando Breña.

In 1980 it participated in the general elections on the lists of UNIR

Revolutionary Left Union

Revolutionary Left Union , was an electoral front in Peru founded in 1980 by Communist Party of Peru , Revolutionary Vanguard and National Liberation Front. UNIR participated on the lists of IU from the municipal elections 1980 to 1993....

. In the same year it became one of the founding organizations of the United Left

United Left (Peru)

United Left was an alliance of leftist political parties in Peru founded in 1980 by Popular Democratic Unity , Revolutionary Left Union , Peruvian Communist Party , Revolutionary Socialist Party , Revolutionary Communist Party and FOCEP.In 1984 UDP and a part of PCR converted itself into the...

(IU). After the downfall of IU, PCdelP-PR launched New Left Movement

New Left Movement (Peru)

The New Left Movement is a Peruvian political party. At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 1.2% of the popular vote but no seats in the Congress of the Republic. The party ran Alberto Moreno for the presidency in 2006 gaining 0.3% of the popular vote....

(MNI) as its electoral front. Currently PCdelP-PR is the major Marxist group in the country. It participates in the build-up of the Broad Left Front (FAI).

The general secretary of the party, Alberto Moreno, was the FAI candidate in the 2006 presidential elections

Peruvian national election, 2006

The first round of the 2006 Peruvian national election was held on April 9, 2006 to elect the President of the Republic, two Vice-Presidents, 120 Members of Congress, and five Peruvian members of the Andean Parliament , for the 2006-2011 period.No single presidential ticket obtained more than half...

.

The official organ of the Central Committee

Central Committee

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of the party is called Patria Roja.

See also