Broad Front

A political party, which defines itself as a coalition of parties, political organizations, social movements, and citizen activists in Peru whose main objective is to consolidate the various left-wing, progressive, socialist, and environmentalist sectors.

It originated at the Meeting of Social and Political Organizations held in 2007, and its initial objective was to promote the defense of territories. It has been part of the Congress of the Republic since 2012 as part of the Popular Action-Broad Front parliamentary group, and since 2016 with its own parliamentary group. During the parliamentary interregnum following the dissolution of Congress in 2019, it had two members on the Standing Committee.

In the 2016 general elections, it participated by nominating Verónika Mendoza as its presidential candidate. In the elections, held on April 10, the party became the third largest political force in the country, obtaining the largest minority representation in the Congress of the Republic. During the 2016-2021 parliamentary period, before the dissolution of Congress, it obtained 20 congressmen; in July 2017 the caucus split and 10 of the 20 congressmen created the New Peru caucus.

The Broad Front is positioned in an environmentalist and reformist policy with a social democratic orientation. It seeks to implement a policy of transparency, allow citizens to participate in politics through participatory democracy, and decentralize political, fiscal, and administrative powers.

It advocates establishing an ecological commitment by generalizing renewable energy throughout the country and protecting the country's biodiversity from human activities, including a policy of reforestation, the fight against deforestation and illegal exploitation.

At the economic level, the party seeks to prohibit monopolies and oligopolies in the country's economy, giving priority to a pluralistic and social market economy, regulated by the State. It also wants to develop local production, improve support for small and medium-sized enterprises, give more protection to unions and improve working conditions in the country.

Faced with poverty, the party wants to increase minimum wages and pensions. He is in favor of a significant investment in education so that all children can go to school. The party proposes a social plan to eradicate inequalities, especially to improve women's rights, as well as an anti-racist policy to ensure that the country achieves the required human rights objectives.

The party wants to guarantee the protection of indigenous peoples and empower them in certain regions of the country, and it is also in favor of a revision of free trade agreements, as well as better cooperation among South American states.

President: Marco Arana