Broad Left Front (in

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: ''Frente Amplio de Izquierda'') is a

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Participants

The organizations that constituted FAI were as follows: * New Left Movement (''Movimiento Nueva Izquierda'') *

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(''Frente Popular'') *

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(''Partido Comunista Peruano'') *

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(''Partido Comunista del Perú - Patria Roja'') *

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(''Frente Obrero Campesino Estudiantil Popular'') * Revolutionary Socialist Party (''Partido Socialista Revolucionario'') * Malpica Committee (''Comité Malpica'') * United People Movement (''Movimiento Pueblo Unido'') *

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(''Partido Nacionalista de las Comunidades Andinas'') * Popular Democratic Front (''Frente Democrático Popular'')

History

Initially, the organization was known as National Coordination of Left-wing and Progressive Parties (''Coordinadora Nacional de Izquierda y Partidos Progresistas''). It took the name ''Frente Amplio de Izquierda'' in November 2005. In the elections of 2006, the FAI decided to withhold support for the presidential candidacy of

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and his

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, and nominated

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, chairman of Peru's communist party, as its own presidential candidate. Subsequently, some long-time leftists, such as

Ricardo Letts Colmenares Ricardo Letts Colmenares (August 9, 1937 – May 18, 2021) was a Peruvian politician, journalist and left-wing militant. Childhood and youth Born in Lima, his parents were Roberto Letts Sánchez, an agricultural businessman and Josefina Colmenar ...

, left the FAI. "La izquierda en el Perú: de la rupture a un frente amplio"
("The Left in Peru: From rupture to a broad front") by Jorge Zavaleta Alegre, ''Los Andes'', 14 July 2013 (accessed 20 March 2016)(in

) In the elections, Moreno received 0.3% of the vote, coming in 12th.

References

Defunct political party alliances in Peru Left-wing political party alliances

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