Popular Action (Peru)

Popular Action
Acción Popular
AbbreviationAP
PresidentJulio Chávez Chiong
General SecretaryEdmundo del Águila
FounderFernando Belaúnde
Founded7 July 1956; 68 years ago (1956-07-07)
Preceded byDemocratic Youth Front
HeadquartersLima
Membership (2023)250,472
Ideology
Political positionCentre[1][2] to centre-right[3][4][5]
Anthem"Popular Action March"[6]
Congress
10 / 130
Governorships
0 / 25
Regional Councillors
6 / 342
Province Mayorships
3 / 196
District Mayorships
61 / 1,874
Website
accionpopular.com.pe
Acción Popular banner in Lima, Peru

The Popular Action (Spanish: Acción Popular, AP) is a liberal and reformist political party in Peru, founded by former Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde.

  1. ^ Levitsky, Steven; Cameron, Maxwell A. (2009), "Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Changes in Fujimori's Peru", Latin American Democratic Transformations: Institutions, Actors, Processes, John Wiley & Sons, p. 342
  2. ^ Seawright, Jason (2012), Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela, Stanford University Press, p. 166
  3. ^ Carrión, Julio F. (2009), "The Persistent Attraction of Populism in the Andes", Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species?, Routledge, p. 238
  4. ^ Middlebrook, Kevin J. (2000), "Introduction: Conservative Parties, Elite Representation and Democracy in Latin America", Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America, Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 29
  5. ^ Patrón Galindo, Pedro (2010), "Political marketing in a weak democracy? The Peruvian case", Global Political Marketing, Routledge, p. 202
  6. ^ "Marcha del Partido AP". accionpopular.com.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2019.