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The Peruvian presidential election of 2011 is scheduled to take place on April 10, 2011. The election will determine the successor to Alan Garcia, as well as 120 Members of Congress. The winners will be sworn in on July 28, 2011.

After the regime of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) Peruvian politics has been dominated by several political parties, covering the whole political spectrum.

Main Political Parties

Right of the center is the Unidad Nacional (National unity) coalition, composed of Partido Popular Cristiano (Christian People's Party) and Solidaridad Nacional (National Renewal), although an agreement to maintain this coalition for the 2011 election has not been reached yet.^[1] Striking a more populist tone, Alianza para el Futuro (Alliance for the Future) gathers supporters of former President Alberto Fujimori.
Claiming a more centrist stand are: APRA, the ruling party, Peru Posible, under the leadership of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and Frente de Centro which was lead by the late Valentin Paniagua.
Left of Center is Partido Nacionalista Peruano (Peruvian Nationalist Party) which unsuccessfully launched the candidacy of Ollanta Humala in 2006. However, the left of center also offers and array of different parties, from the more centrist Partido Movimiento Humanista Peruano (Peruvian Humanist Movement Party) to the more radical Frente Amplio de Izquierda (Broad Left Front).

Potential Candidates

Luis Castañeda (Solidaridad Nacional)	Óscar Luis Castañeda Lossio is the current mayor of Lima, Peru. Born in Chiclayo, his father was this city's mayor. He was trained as a lawyer at the Catholic University of Peru, in Sweden and Mexico. In 1981, he started as a member of Popular Action party, working with many of the former mayors of Lima. Between 1990-1996, during Fujimori's government, he was the President of the National Institute of Public Health. In 2000, he ran as a candidate of his own party National Solidarity Party, in the presidential elections, but failed to make it to the run-off elections. In 2002, he participated in the elections for mayor with the National Unity Party, defeating the then mayor of the city Alberto Andrade. Castañeda is one of the most popular mayors of Lima with a popularity index close to 73%, due to his developing of many public works projects at the slums of Lima.
Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza 2011)	Keiko Fujimori Higuchi is a Peruvian politician, daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. While in the United States Fujimori attended Columbia Business School in Manhattan for a year and a half and obtained a business degree from Boston University School of Management. In April 2006, while her father was detained in neighboring Chile, Fujimori was elected to the Peruvian Congress, obtaining the highest vote nationwide.
Lourdes Flores (Partido Popular Cristiano)	Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano leads the Unidad Nacional (National Unity) alliance and the Partido Popular Cristiano (Popular Christian Party or PPC) in Peru, which is the most well-known right-of-center party of the country. Lourdes Flores was born in Lima on 7 October 1959. She attended law school at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and pursued graduate studies in Madrid, at the Instituto de Empresa and the Universidad Complutense. Flores was elected National Deputy from Lima to the Congress of the Republic in 1990 with more than 250 000 votes. She opposed the 1992 "auto-golpe" of President of the Republic Alberto Fujimori, organizing congressional meetings in her home. She ran for president in 2001 and was second in the polls behind Alejandro Toledo for most of the campaign. She finished in third place by only a 1% margin behind Toledo and Alan Garcia Perez. She ran again in the 2006 presidential race which took place 9 April 2006 and was also unable to reach the run-off.
Alejandro Toledo (Peru Posible)	Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique (born 28 March 1946) is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in 2001 defeating former President Alan García. Toledo came to international prominence after leading the opposition against President Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000. After his presidential term, Toledo left Peru and went to the USA where he was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University during the 2006-2008 academic years. In 2007-2008 he was a Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a CDDRL (Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law) Visiting Scholar. [2]
Ollanta Humala (Partido Nacionalista Peruano)	Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (born June 26, 1963) is a Peruvian left-leaning nationalist politician who ran for president in 2006 but lost in a runoff to Alan García. The son of Isaac Humala, a former member of the Communist Party of Peru - Red Fatherland, he joined the Peruvian Army in 1982. On October 2000, Humala led an unsuccessful military uprising against President Alberto Fujimori and was pardoned by the Peruvian Congress after the downfall of the Fujimori regime. In 2005 he founded the Peruvian Nationalist Party and registered to run in the 2006 presidential election. He won the first round of the elections, held on April 9, 2006, with 30.62% of the valid votes. A runoff was held on June 4 between Humala and Alan García of the Peruvian Aprista Party. Humala lost this round with 47.47% of the valid votes versus 52.62% for García. After his defeat, Humala had become the "head" of the opposition to the government

Polls

Source: http://www.ipsos-apoyo.com.pe/opinion_publica

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