The Peruvian Humanist Party (, PHP), formerly the Peruvian Humanist Movement Party, is a

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, and a former member of the Decentralization Coalition together with the Partido por la Democracia Social - Compromiso Perú. The PMHP won the regional elections of 2002 for the northern region of Lambayeque. In 2008, Yehude Simon of PMHP became Prime Minister of Peru under

Alan García Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (; 23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the American Popula ...

. He resigned less than a year later. For the

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the party was allied with the

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, that won 12 seats in Congress, making Yehude Simon a congressman for

Lambayeque Region Lambayeque () is a Administrative divisions of Peru, department and Regional Government of Lambayeque, region in northwestern Peru known for its rich Moche culture, Moche and Chimú culture, Chimú historical past. The region's name originates ...

. Since 2017, the party is currently a member of the

Together for Peru Together for Peru () is a Peruvian Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politics, left-wing Political alliance, political coalition founded with the incumbent registration of the Peruvian Humanist Party. Formally a registered political ...

coalition, although its party registration was used in order to formalize the union by changing the party's name to the coalition's name. The coalition is composed by the

Peruvian Communist Party The Peruvian Communist Party (; PCP) is a communist party in Peru that was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party (, PSP) in 1928 by a group led by José Carlos Mariátegui until its name change in 1930. In contemporary Peruvian politics, it is ...

, the

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, the

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, Citizens for Change, Únete por otra Democracia, and Movement Towards Socialism. At the

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held on 26 January 2020, the Humanist Party, which was part of the Together for Peru coalition won 4.8% of the popular vote but no seats in the Congress of the Republic. Although, the first projections gave the coalition approximately 5.0% within the margin of error, the party failed to get past the electoral threshold in order to attain representation.

Electoral history

Presidential election

Election to the Congress of the Republic

References

External links

Official website (Spanish)
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