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New Peru for Good Living

Nuevo Perú por el Buen Vivir

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On 10 July 2017, 10 congressmen left the Broad Front caucus, and on July 26, New Peru appointed its coordinators and representatives to the Board of Spokespersons of Congress for the 2017-2018 period: Alberto Quintanilla, coordinator of the parliamentary bloc, and Tania Pariona, in charge of the alternate coordination.

The party was informally founded on 9 December 2017 in Metropolitan Lima. New Peru absorbed other groups, such as: Sembrar Movement, Socialist Party and Land and Liberty.

The spokesperson for New Peru is Edgar Ochoa. New Peru had 10 seats in the Congress of the Republic of Peru who separated from the Broad Front coalition upon its formation. The group was legally recognized in September 2017. The movement is in the process of being registered as a political party to formally participate in the 2021 general election.

At the legislative elections held on 26 January 2020, the party ran allied with the Together for Peru coalition as its party registration was still pending. The exit polls gave the alliance 4.8% of the popular vote but no seats in the Congress of the Republic, as they failed to pass the electoral threshold. For the 2021 general election, Mendoza was unable to register New Peru, prompting her to reach an agreement with Together for Peru in order to run for the presidency for a second time. Confirmed as the coalition's presidential nominee, Mendoza failed to qualify for the run-off a second time, as she placed sixth in the election with 7.9% of the popular vote. Her loss in support throughout the campaign is widely credited to Pedro Castillo and Yonhy Lescano's voting share in the south of Peru, a traditional stronghold for the Peruvian left.

Following the removal of Pedro Castillo, New Peru joined the protests against Dina Boluarte. The movement participated in the various demonstrations organized by social organizations that took place in Lima and throughout the country. On 17 December 2022 of that year, their party headquarters, located in Plaza Bolognesi, was raided by the police in what the NP and various human rights groups described as an irregular operation. The headquarters provided lodging and food to delegations of protesters who had traveled from other regions.

New Peru members have been participating in the protests against Dina Boluarte since December 2022. They have joined the call for early elections and have reaffirmed their demand for a new Constitution. Together with other popular and social organizations, they form the CNUL, the National Unitary Coordinating Committee for Struggle, which has called for a national meeting at the end of September 2023.

On 5 July 2024, the party finally achieved its registration as a political party, naming itself New Peru for Good Living.

For the 2026 elections, New Pery formed the Venceremos alliance with the Voices of the People party, led by Guillermo Bermejo.

In New Peru's party documents, they describe the organization as "socialist, feminist, environmentalist, diverse and intercultural". According to party president Verónika Mendoza, New Peru is "part of a long socialist tradition that began with the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui in the 1920s", and that the party distanced itself from "ideologism and authoritarianism that has, where it appeared, isolated the Left". New Peru advocates for equal rights, the respect for diversity, protection of nature and sustainability that is achieved through a decentralized system which utilizes multiple viewpoints.

President: Verónika Mendoza (11 December 2017 – 24 January 2022), Anahí Durand (24 January 2022 – 7 April 2022), Énver León (de facto, since 7 April 2022)

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Peru_for_Good_Living
  2. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevo_Perú
Record ID: peNPLast edited August 2026