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58-486: Popular Action Party may refer to: Popular Action (Peru) , a populist political party in Peru Popular Action Party (Panama) , a Panamanian political party Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Popular Action Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

116-511: A Senate and a Chamber of Deputies . This system was interrupted by a number of times by Constitutional Congresses that promulgated new Constitutions that lasted for a couple of years. The Deputies reunited in the Legislative Palace and the Senators went to the former Peruvian Inquisition of Lima until 1930, when Augusto B. Leguía was overthrown by Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro . He installed

174-471: A party-list proportional representation system, is used to allocate seats in congress. Political parties publish their party list for each region ahead of the election. Candidates do not need to be members of the political party they run for but may run for such party as a guest. Each candidate is assigned a number within the list. The citizenry thus votes for the party of their preference directly. Additionally, voters may write two specific candidates' number on

232-517: A 33,027 Peruvian soles (approximately $ 9,000) personnel allowance. Congressman also receive a one-time extra monthly salary before the beginning of their term, known as an installation expenses allowance. The most important officer is the President of Congress who is fourth in line of presidential succession if both the President and both vice-presidents are incapable of assuming the role. The President of Congress can only serve as interim president as he

290-572: A Constitutional Congress (1931–1933) that promulgated the Constitution of 1933. By order of the president, the Peruvian Aprista Party members that were in Congress were arrested for their revolutionary doctrines against the government. When Sánchez Cerro was assassinated in 1933 by an APRA member, General Óscar R. Benavides took power and closed Congress until 1939, when Manuel Prado Ugarteche

348-482: A check and a balance to the other branches of government: After widespread protests the previous year , the 2021 election saw a surge in support for the new left-wing Free Peru , which also won the presidential election with Pedro Castillo on the same day. However, a coalition of right-wing parties holds the majority of Congress and have been strongly opposed to President Castillo. One bloc of far-right parties comprises about one-third of seats in Congress, with

406-519: A decree that set snap elections for 26 January 2020. The representatives served out the remainder of the original legislative term, which expired in July 2021. On 26 July 2021, the new and current Congress was sworn in, with an alliance led by Popular Action member María del Carmen Alva successfully gaining control of Peru's Congress. On 7 December 2022, the president Pedro Castillo attempted self-coup d'état by unconstitutionally dissolving Congress and

464-519: A series of political reforms as a response to the CNM audios scandal during his Independence Day message on 28 July 2018. One of his proposals was the establishment of a bicameral legislature similar to the one that existed in Peru before the 1993 Constitution. A referendum on the bicameralism proposal, as well as three other constitutional amendment proposals, was held on 9 December 2018. The bicameralism proposal

522-484: A specific topic as directed by Article 97 of the Constitution. Appearances before investigative committees are compulsory, under the same requirements as judicial proceedings. Investigative committee have the power to access any information necessary, including non-intrusive private information such as tax filings and bank financial statements. Investigative committees final reports are non-binding to judicial bodies. Special committees are set up for ceremonial purposes or for

580-578: A vote of more than half the legal number of congressmen. It can also remove government official including the President , consent to the entry of foreign troops into the national territory, and authorize the President to leave the country. Congress meets at the Legislative Palace in Lima . The presiding officer is the President of Congress , who is elected by the members thereof (and is therefore traditionally

638-497: Is a liberal and reformist political party in Peru , founded by former Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde . Fernando Belaúnde founded Popular Action ( Acción Popular ) in 1956 as a reformist alternative to the status quo conservative forces and the populist American Popular Revolutionary Alliance party. Although Belaúnde's message was not all that different from APRA's, his tactics were more inclusive and less confrontational. He

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696-660: Is allocated seats on committees in proportion to its overall strength. Most committee work is performed by 24 standing committees. They examine matters within their jurisdiction of the corresponding government departments and ministries. They may also impede bills from reaching the Plenary Assembly. There are two independent committees, the Permanent Assembly and the Parliamentary Ethics Committee. Investigative committee are in charge of investigating

754-414: Is almost always from the majority party. Its most important responsibility is to control and guide debate in Congress. He also signs, communicates and publishes bills and other decisions made by Congress. He may delegate any of these responsibilities to one of the vice-presidents of Congress. The president serves along three vice-presidents who are collectively known as Mesa Directiva del Congreso , known as

812-511: Is chosen and serves under the direction of the Bureau and Executive Council. Standing Committees are in charge of the study and report of routine business of the calendar, especially in the legislative and oversight function. The President of Congress, in coordination with Parliamentary Groups or upon consultation with the Executive Council, proposes the number of Standing Committees. Each party

870-473: Is directly proportional to the number of seats each party holds in Congress. The council has administrative and legislative responsibilities. Similar to the United States House Committee on Rules , it sets the calendar for the Plenary Assembly and fixes floor time for debating calendar items. Each political party in Congress chooses a Spokesperson who acts as the party leader and is a member of

928-544: Is established by Chapter I of Title IV of the Constitution of Peru . Congress is composed of representatives who sit in congressional districts allocated to each region , as well as two special districts, Lima Province and Peruvian citizens living abroad, on a basis of population as measured by the Peruvian Census in multi-member districts. The number of voting representatives is fixed by the Constitution at 130. Pursuant to

986-530: Is in charge of enforcing the code and punishing violators. Discipline consist of (a) private, written admonishments; (b) public admonishments through a Congressional resolution; (c) suspension from three to 120 days from their legislative functions. Any congressmen may lose their parliamentary immunity if authorized by Congress. The process is started by the Criminal Sector of the Supreme Court who presents

1044-467: Is in charge of enforcing the code and punishing violators. Discipline consists of (a) private, written admonishments; (b) public admonishments through a Congressional resolution; (c) suspension from 3 to 120 days from their legislative functions. Article 102 of the Peruvian Constitution delineated ten specific functions of Congress which deal with both its legislative power as well as its role as

1102-411: Is in session similar to what an upper-chamber would. It has the responsibility of appointing high-ranking government officers and commencing the removal process of them as well as the heads of the two other branches of government. The Plenary Assembly may assign this committee special responsibilities excluding constitutional reform measures, approval of international treaties, organic acts, the budget, and

1160-480: Is required to call new elections if all three executive officers are not incapable of serving. This has happened once since the adoption of the current constitution when Valentín Paniagua became the interim president after the fall of the Alberto Fujimori regime in 2000. The President of Congress is elected for a one-year term by the rest of Congress. Re-election is possible but uncommon. The President of Congress

1218-511: Is specifically inspired by what has been called "Peru as Doctrine" . It affirms that the proclamation is of a "democratic, nationalist and revolutionary" court: The idea of "Peru as Doctrine" is based on the values and principles arising from the historical and cultural particularity in which Peru developed but which have universal significance. An important part of their doctrine is developed in what they call Popular Cooperation . In Peruvian political history it has happened that on occasions

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1276-508: Is the name that has been given to the party's ideological doctrine. It is pointed out that the main feature of his thinking is a situational humanism . Popularactionism considers that the role of the State should be limited to regulating and encouraging private enterprise and sustainable development. Within the main feature of his theory, situational humanism, it considers in the Peruvian case that it

1334-513: Is then communicated back to the Supreme Court. Every congressman receives a monthly salary of 15,600 Peruvian soles (approximately US$ 4,000). They further receive 7,617 Peruvian soles (approximately $ 2,100) for congressional function expenses and 2,530 Peruvian soles (approximately $ 700) for congressional representation week expenses to support them in their official and representational duties to their district. Each congressman further receives

1392-422: The 2017 Census , the largest delegation is that of Lima Province , with 36 representatives. Congress is charged with the responsibility to pass laws and legislative resolutions, as well as to interpret, amend, or repeal existing laws. Congress also ratifies international treaties, approves the national budget, and authorizes loans on behalf of the country. It may also override presidential observations to bills by

1450-516: The Constitution of Peru , the President of Peru can be removed by Congress without cause , effectively making the legislature more powerful than the executive branch. Following a ruling in February 2023 by the Constitutional Court of Peru , the body tasked with interpreting the Constitution of Peru and whose members are directly chosen by Congress, judicial oversight of the legislative body

1508-533: The 2016–2021 term, AP had five congressmen out of 130 representing the party, until the snap election in 2020 , when it increased its representation to 25 congressmen until the end of the 2016–2021 term. In the 2021 elections , Lescano placed 5th in a fractured race of 18 candidates while the party gained 16 seats for the 2021–2026 congressional term. On 26 July 2021, an alliance led by Popular Action member María del Carmen Alva successfully negotiated an agreement to gain control of Peru's Congress . Popularactionism

1566-505: The 2020 election, Purple Party , We Are Peru and Podemos Perú also all lost seats, while the Ethnocacerist Union for Peru , leftist Broad Front and Agrarian Agricultural People's Front all failed to win any seats. Contigo , the successor to former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 's Peruvians for Change party, also failed to win a seat and continued its downwards trend of the previous election, receiving only around 0.05% of

1624-524: The Board of Spokespersons alongside the members of the Bureau. The Board of Spokespersons main role deals with committee assignments as well as the flow of bills from the committees to the Plenary Assembly. La Oficialía Mayor, or Secretariat General, is the body of personnel led by the Secretary-General. It is responsible for assisting all members of Congress with daily managerial tasks. The Secretary-General

1682-558: The Bureau in English. The three vice-presidents are not always from the same party as the president. The Bureau approves all administrative functions as well as all of Congress's internal financial policy and hiring needs. Any member of the Bureau may be censored by any member of Congress. El Consejo Directivo , or Executive Council, consists of the four members of the Bureau as well as representatives from each political party in Congress which are known as Executive-Spokespersons. Its composition

1740-475: The Congress, impeding the power that Fujimori had as president. He made the decision of dissolving Congress by a self-coup to his government in 1992. Following the self-coup , in which Congress was dissolved, the Democratic Constitutional Congress established a single chamber of 120 members. The Democratic Constitutional Congress promulgated the 1993 Constitution in which gave more power to

1798-590: The General Account of the Republic Act. The Assembly consist of twenty-five percent of the total number of congressmen elected proportionally to the number of seats each party holds in Congress. They are installed within the first 15 days of the first session of Congress's term. Congressmen must follow the Congress's code of ethics which is part of its self-established Standing Rules of Congress. La Comisión de Ética Parlamentaria , or Parliamentary Ethics Committee,

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1856-458: The President. The new unicameral Congress started working in 1995, dominated by Fujimori's Congressmen that had the majority. The Congress permits a one-year term for a Congressman or Congresswoman to become President of Congress. During the presidencies of Ollanta Humala , Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Martín Vizcarra , the right-wing Congress led by the daughter of the former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori , obstructed much of

1914-496: The actions performed by the presidents. According to Walter Albán, head of Transparency International Peru, the Congress of Peru has recently been infiltrated by criminal groups that obstruct reforms in order to maintain their status and parliamentary immunity . The 2016-2021 congressional term was dissolved by President Martín Vizcarra in September 2019, triggering the 2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis . Vizcarra issued

1972-498: The armed forces or national police can only become congressmen six months after leaving their post. Congressmen serve for a five-year term and cannot be reelected for a new term, immediately, in the same position. Elections for congress happen simultaneously as the election for president. Seats in congress are assigned to each region in proportion to the region's population. Congressional elections take place in April. The D'Hondt method ,

2030-479: The ballot as their personal preference. The newly elected congress takes office on the 26 July of the year of the election. Congressmen may not be tried or arrested without prior authorization from Congress from the time of their election until a month after the end of their term. Congressmen must follow the Congress's code of ethics which is part of its self-established Standing Rules of Congress. La Comisión de Ética Parlamentaria , or Parliamentary Ethics Committee,

2088-638: The bloc including the Fujimorist Popular Force , Popular Renewal of Rafael López Aliaga and Go on Country . Popular Force, which had dominated the legislature during the reign of Keiko Fujimori , regained 9 seats since their poor performance in the 2020 election , making them the second largest party. Popular Renewal party would also gain 13 seats while Go on Country won 7 seats. The previously dominant center-right parties Popular Action and Alliance for Progress both lost some seats. The new or previously minor parties that had gained ground in

2146-487: The case to the Presidency of Congress. The case is then referred to a special committee of 15 congressmen known as Comisión de Levantamiento de Inmunidad Parlamentaria , or Committee on Lifting Parliamentary Immunity, that decides if the petition should be heard by the body as a whole. The accused congressmen has the right to a lawyer and to defend himself before the committee and before the Plenary Assembly. The final decision

2204-686: The corruption of his government was revealed by the opposition. AP member Valentín Paniagua would become President of the Congress in November 2000 for a few days and, after the fall of the Fujimori administration, became the interim President of the Republic, holding office from November 2000 to July 2001. At the 8 April 2001 election, the party won 4.2% of the popular vote and three out of 120 seats in Congress . Likewise, in 2002, regional elections were held for

2262-460: The early 1980s), at the beginning of the 1990s migrated to liberal political positions (to the Liberty Movement and then to Fujimorism). These are the two biggest party losses suffered by this party. Consequently, from then on, Popular Action is generally identified with positions of the center, with factions of both the progressive left and the conservative right. Towards the end of the 1990s,

2320-479: The first time, which aimed to elect Regional Presidents for the 25 departments of Peru. In that sense, party participation was quite high (15 political groups). In these elections, AP ranked sixth by number of votes. For the 2006 national election , the party joined forces with We Are Peru and National Coordinator of Independents to form the Centre Front coalition. Paniagua was the presidential candidate, while

2378-655: The former popularactionist Luis Castañeda founded the National Solidarity , which with an alliance with the Christian People's Party within the National Unity coalition won the municipal elections in the capital, Lima, in 2002. Congress of the Republic of Peru The Congress of the Republic of Peru ( Spanish : Congreso de la República ) is the unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru . Due to broadly interpreted impeachment wording in

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2436-464: The fourth place in the national election, with 15.6% of the popular vote. For the 2016 national election , the party ran alone for the first time since 2000, when Congressman Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde ran against the sitting president Alberto Fujimori , and it was the first time since 2006 that Popular Action participated with a party member as a presidential candidate, when former President Valentín Paniagua ran for office. The presidential candidate

2494-560: The leader of the controlling party). The President and three vice-presidents are chosen by the controlling governing coalition. Supreme Court of the Republic President Javier Arévalo Vela  [ es ] The first Peruvian Congress was installed in 1822 as the Constitutional Congress led by Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro . In 1829, the government installed a bicameral Congress, made up by

2552-483: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Popular_Action_Party&oldid=933061119 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Popular Action (Peru) The Popular Action ( Spanish : Acción Popular , AP)

2610-528: The lower chamber in a joint session to approve budgets. Unlike the lower chamber, which is elected entirely by proportional representation from a single, national constituency, the Senate will have 27 members elected from individual departmental constituencies and the remaining 33 elected proportionately nationwide. The move came nearly five years after a failed 2018 attempt to reestablish the Senate by popular referendum. Peruvian ex-president Martín Vizcarra proposed

2668-497: The party was more of an electoral machine for the persona of Belaúnde than an institutionalized organization. The AP was initially reckoned as a center-left party. However, by the 1980s, Peru's political spectrum had shifted sharply leftward, and the AP found itself on the center-right. After AP's second administration, in 1985, the party was defeated by the APRA party, gaining only 6.4 percent of

2726-398: The re-election of deposed President Fernando Belaúnde . It limited the president to a single five-year term and established a bicameral legislature consisting of a 60-member Senate (upper house) and a 180-member Chamber of Deputies (lower house). Members of both chambers were elected for five-year terms, running concurrently with that of the president . Party-list proportional representation

2784-433: The realization of special study or joint work with other government organizations or amongst congressional committees. They disband after they fulfill their assigned tasks. The Permanent Assembly, or Comisión Permanente , fulfills the basic functions of Congress when it is under recess or break. It is not dissolved even if Congress is dissolved by the President . It also fulfills some Constitutional functions while Congress

2842-461: The right has called Popular Action a leftist party (first government) or that the left has called it a right-wing party (second government). Towards the end of the 1960s, a radicalized sector split from the party (the so-called "hotheads"), forming Acción Popular Socialista (Manuel Seoane, Gustavo Mohme, among other intellectuals). Likewise, a significant percentage of the so-called "young Turks" (or "chapulines"/grasshoppers, young popularactionists of

2900-547: The state apparatus as a whole. He was subsequently impeached and removed by congress. Article 90 of the Peruvian Constitution sets three qualifications for congressmen: (1) they must be natural-born citizens; (2) they must be at least 25 years old; (3) they must be an eligible voter. Candidates for president cannot simultaneously run for congress while vice-presidential candidates can. Furthermore, Article 91 states that high-ranking government officers and any member of

2958-505: The vice-presidential candidates belonged to AP's allies. The Center Front ended in the fifth place in the national election, with 5.6% of the popular vote. For the 2011 national election , the party joined forces with We Are Peru and Possible Peru to form the Possible Peru Electoral Alliance . The presidential candidate was former Peru's president and leader of Possible Peru , Alejandro Toledo . The alliance ended in

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3016-550: The vote. In March 2024, 91 out of 130 members of Congress voted to restore the Senate with the general election of 2026 . The reconstituted Senate will have 60 members each serving a five-year term. The Senate will have the power to appoint the presidents of the Central Reserve Bank and the Court of Auditors , among other offices. The Senate will also have the power of final approval over proposed legislation and will meet with

3074-474: The vote. In 1990, AP participated in the elections as a part of the Democratic Front , a center-right coalition headed by Mario Vargas Llosa . In 2000, Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde was selected as the presidential nominee, being the worst general election for AP, gaining only 0.42% of the popular vote. Only three AP congressman were elected. As many assume the election was a fraud, Fujimori resigned after

3132-422: Was Alfredo Barnechea , journalist and political analyst, who won the party's primaries with 52% of the votes, defeating Mesías Guevara (40%), the party's president for the 2014–2018 term, the lawyer Beatríz Mejía (6%) and former Deputy Alejandro Montoya (2%). Popular Action ended in fourth place in the national election, with 6.97% of the popular vote. This was the best result for Popular Action since 1985. For

3190-490: Was able to appeal to some of the same political base as APRA, primarily the middle class, but also to a wider base of professionals and white-collar workers. It also advocated scientific advancement and technocracy , a policy set that it took from the Progressive Social Movement , a splinter party which it eventually absorbed. The AP had significant electoral success, attaining the presidency in 1963 and 1980, but

3248-420: Was also removed by the court, essentially giving Congress absolute control of Peru's government. Since the 2021 Peruvian general election , right wing parties held a majority in the legislature. The largest represented leftist party in Congress, Free Peru , has subsequently aligned itself with conservative and Fujimorists parties within Congress due to their institutional power. Congress's composition

3306-495: Was elected president. During various dictatorships, the Congress was interrupted by coups d'état. In 1968, Juan Velasco Alvarado overthrew president Fernando Belaúnde by a coup d'état , closing again the Congress. The 1979 Constitution was promulgated on 12 July 1979 by the Constitutional Assembly elected following 10 years of military rule and replaced the suspended 1933 Constitution. It became effective in 1980 with

3364-408: Was used for both chambers: on a regional basis for the Senate, and using the D'Hondt method for the lower house. Members of both houses had to be Peruvian citizens, with a minimum age of 25 for deputies and 35 for senators . At the beginning of the 1990s, the bicameral congress had a low public approval rating. President Alberto Fujimori did not have the majority in both chambers, the opposition led

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