1980 Peruvian General Election Puns

July 23rd, 2031

The last five years have been momentous for their normalcy in Peru. The incumbent president, 41 year old Raúl Lúis Vargas, has not been impeached, forced to resign in disgrace, connected to massive corruption scandals, involved in a foreign war, presided over economic collapse, called special elections or referendums to circumvent Congress, attempted to unilaterally amend the constitution, or had public affairs. Instead, he has overseen the rise of the GDPPC Peru by over two thousand dollars, furthered integration into the Andean Union, and peace and stability in Peru. Naturally, these simple acts of not doing anything stupid or getting unlucky with regards to world economic issues have made President Vargas wildly popular. A meme petition to coronate him as the first ‘King of Peru’ received thousands of signatures, though President Vargas politely declined. A more serious petition to amend the constitution to allow for re-election gathered over a million signatures, though President Vargas declined that as well, citing his support for term limits and his current campaign for Chancellor of the Andean Union.

With President Vargas off the table, all eyes went to his endorsement. He stayed out of the Vamos! primary, and immediately endorsed the winner, Sofía Huaricancha Michi, a half-Quechua Congresswomen from Iquitos. Her native background was seen as a significant electoral benefit, especially when running against the surprisingly strong pro-native Qhapaq party, which finished second in the 2026 general election. Opposing Ms. Michi is a center-right/Fujimorist candidate, Governor Carlos Ferdinand of Madre de Dios Region, and a Qhapaq candidate, Congresswoman Julía Caipa of Tacna. Various potential left-wing candidates declined to run and endorsed Michi or Caipa.

Polling suggests that Michi will win the first round in the low forties, followed by a tight race for the right to challenge her in the second round between Caipa and Ferdinand.

In the congressional race, Vamos! looks to loose its rare congressional majority though keep a plurality. The lack of a presidential candidate may mean the left wing parties will loose their seats, and both Qhapaq and the right wing parties are looking to expand their seats.

First Round Presidential Results

I have read and heard that Indira Gandhi was very unpopular in 1977, when she called elections after Emergency. What changed in three years?

##Peruvian General Elections, 2026

Format

Both the directly elected President of Peru and the unicameral Congress of Peru are up for election. The President is elected in a two round system. If no candidate secures a majority in the first round, then the top two candidates proceed to the next round. Re-elections are allowed, but no consecutive terms may be served. The Congress is elected by party list proportional representation in each multi-member constituency, with a 5% threshold. The first round and congressional elections are scheduled for March 15th, the second round is scheduled for April 15th.

###The Presidential Candidates

Raúl Luís Vargas

First Minister of Governmental Oversight, a Congressman from Lima, widely considered to be the author of the Andean Constitution, and founder of Vamos!, Raúl Luís Vargas unsurprisingly is running for president. Only 36, he nevertheless is one of the most experiences candidates in the race, and is widely perceived as the front runner following the key endorsement of popular former president Martín Vizcarra, who recently narrowly lost his bid to be the first Chancellor of the Andes on the Vamos! ticket. Vargas is a centrist, favoring international trade and cooperation, liberalization of society, and limited economic intervention.

** Jorge Pedro La Reyes**

A popular general and veteran of the Cinema War, he is one of the most public Peruvian nationalists, famous for his viscous denouncements of the Andean Constitutional Convention while he served as a delegate. He is running on a ticket of capitalism, nationalism, Catholicism, and militarism, and has already drawn comparisons to Alberto Fujimori. However, he rejects any Fujimorist labels, and instead casts himself as a Peruvian conservative. He surged to second place in the field. drawing significant Fujimorist support in addition to his conservative base.

Atahualpa Tupac Capac

A Quecha lawyer and local politician, Capac has leaped on the Qhapaq ticket to run for president. He has benefited from the collapse of the Fujimoristas, with about half of the Fujimorists supporting him and half supporting La Reyes. He calls for a pan-Andean new Inca Empire, the return of the traditional Incan religion, the declaration of Quecha as the sole legal language, and a diplomatic turn towards Asia and Africa and away from what he calls ‘colonial powers’. He is currently fighting for third place.

Marco Gonzalez

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##Peruvian General Elections, 2021

Format

Both the directly elected President of Peru and the unicameral Congress of Peru are up for election. The President is elected in a two round system. If no candidate secures a majority in the first round, then the top two candidates proceed to the next round. Re-elections are allowed, but no consecutive terms may be served. The Congress is elected by party list proportional representation in each multi-member constituency, with a 5% threshold. The first round and congressional elections are scheduled for March 15th, the second round is scheduled for April 15th.

###The Presidential Candidates

Kenji Fujimori

Hoisting the orange banner of Fujimorism from his older sister, Keiko, and his father, Alberto, comes youngest son Kenji. With his father imprisoned for life for human rights violations, and his sister serving a ten year term for embezzlement, the current MC has become the leader of the Fujimorista’s almost by default. Fujimorism as an ideology is related to Third Alternative politics, espousing Peruvian nationalism, a strong presidential figure, rejection of international organizations, neoliberal economic reforms, the militarization of the state and has broad populist overtures. One major split in the ideology is over trade. Keiko Fujimori’s Popular Force espouses economic nationalism bullish on tariffs, while Kenji Fujimori’s Vengadores are generally pro-trade. Despite this split, Fujimoristas across Peru have rallied around Kenji, hoping that he can lead the embattled ideology to victory once again.

Carlos Augusto Oliva Neyra

Minister of the Economy in current president Martín Vizcarra’s cabinet, Neyra hopes to capitalize on Vizcarra’s popularity. He has been nominated by a broad coalition of centre-right to right-wing parties and interest groups. His popularity is dampened by his connections to the scandal-wracked Catholic Church, and his implementation of the severe austerity of the 2018-2020 budgets, which critics allege hurt working-class Peruvians most of all by stripping all but the bare minimum of public services. Undeterred, Neyra has pledged to strengthen relations with regional and global organizations, increase trade, and cut taxes on working to middle class Peruvians. He has also pledged to increase already substantial investment in rural Peru. In part to appeal to his base of conservative voters, he has pledged to return Peru to ‘traditional values’ and stop ‘urban do

2016 Presidential Election Results

The 2016 presidential and congressional elections have brought many surprises that not many saw coming. Eduardo Alonso, the son of a gold miner and is a former Congressman, who was only a candidate because of Alan Garcías death, has swept away competition with a stunning 51% of the vote. The Peruvian Aprista Party candidate in last year's election didn't even make it to the ballot because of disagreements in the party, but they now have the presidency, a huge leap for the party.

Keiko Fujimori, who was projected to win the election, has once again come up short to the presidency, in part because of false reports that she was pregnant. She will now have to wait for the 2021 presidential elections for another chance at the presidency.

2016 Congressional Election Results

The Congress now looks much different than it did before. Popular Force and the Peruvian Aprista Party have gained a great many more seats at the expense of Peru Wins. The new president of the congress has been unveiled as Curí Guaman, a Quechuan from a small Andean town, who is currently a member of the Electoral Alliance Possible Peru

is it possable, for the Republicans to accomplish this, if so many people have turned against the Democratic party as a whole, that for more thenn a decade, they are not considered capable of controling the Executive Branch. I have Reagan's election in 1980 as a template for this.

I know there was a similar question asked recently on this sub but that question was directed toward Peruvians. This question is directed toward the rest of Latin America.

It seems like everything from time travel to aliens is more often than not centered around the 80s. What makes this decade such a magnet for the unexplainable?

Recently, I have seen many foreigners taking interest into our elections and politics, and while I am glad that my country is getting covered by foreign press, there are some misconceptions, lies, and general bs that I have seen spreading around not only in reddit but also on different social medias like twitter or facebook. So, in this post I will explain in easy mode the peruvian elections, the system, the parties, the candidates, etc etc, so that you can be informed what happened in Peru.

So, how the frick does peruvian elect a president or parliament?

Peru elects it's president by a runoff system. The candidate that has more than 50% of the valid votes in the primary round wins the election, but that never happens. Instead, the two candidates with the more valid votes go agaisnt each other in a runoff, where the candidate with the most valid votes win the election.

Parliament elections act the same as the house of representatives in the USA, people pick the party they want, and the parties that has the most valid votes in a region get the seats with a system that it's pretty complicated that distributes the seats of a region using the votes from that region. If you didn't understand it, don't worry, we don't either. there is also the preferential vote, where one can pick one candidate in specific that they want to support among the parliamentary list of their region. There is also the andean parliamentary elections, but they don't do shit, so nobody cares.

Independent candidates can not run without a party that backs them up, so they need to approach a party for a temporary membership in the party to run on their list. these are called "invited candidates", and can be found both in the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Wait, is Peru a two party system?

No, there are multiple parties here, who also run on the presidential and parliamentary elections, or only run of the latter. We currently have 24 parties, many of which have fallen or risen depending on their fuckups in recent years. We have parties that self identify as theocratic, but has communalist and agrarian economics, pseudo nazbols that promote national expansion and a return of inca policies, fascists, liberals, libertarians, authoritarian neoliberals, centrists, demsocs, socdems, marxist leninists, etc etc.

So, what parties are the most relevant in this clusterfuck?

From all parties, 10 parties have managed to enter parliament, and as such, are considered importa

Please disregard that they are both dead and probably not citizens of your country.