General elections were held in Peru on 17 June 1956 to elect the President and both houses of the Congress. Incumbent President Manuel A. Odría, who had seized dictatorial powers, was pressured to call the 1956 elections. Manuel Prado Ugarteche of...
National Civic Union (in Spanish: Unión Cívica Nacional) was a political party in Peru. The party was founded around 1939. Its general secretary was Luis Felipe Villarán Freire.
The history of Peru between 1956 and 1968 corresponds to the period following the general elections that put an end to the eight-year military dictatorship that ruled the country since 1948, with Manuel Prado Ugarteche taking office for the second...
General elections were held in Peru on 2 July 1950 to elect the President and both houses of Congress. Manuel A. Odría was the only presidential candidate after the Junta Nacional Electoral invalidated Ernesto Montagne's (Democratic League)...
General elections were held in Peru on 10 June 1962 to elect the President and both houses of Congress. Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre of the Peruvian Aprista Party won the presidential election with 33% of the vote. However, this was below the...
The Senate of Peru is the upper house of the Congress of Peru, following the reinstatement of a bicameral legislature after the 2026 elections. The Senate is made up of 60 directly-elected members who serve a five year term, contrasting with the...
The history of Peru between 1948 and 1956 corresponds to the presidency of General Manuel A. Odría, who overthrew José Luis Bustamante y Rivero through a coup d'état on October 29, 1948. The period's name in Spanish comes from the 8-year length of...
In Peru, the people directly elect a head of state (the president) as well as a legislature. The president is elected by the people for a five-year term. The bicameral Congress (Congreso) consists of a Chamber of Deputies (lower house) and a Senate...
The Republic of Peru has two vice presidents, the first vice president and the second vice president, who are elected along with the president in democratic elections. Their only constitutional mission is to replace the president in case of death,...
An ongoing long-term political crisis began in Peru during the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in late 2016 and has substantially worsened under the rule of his various successors. The crisis has been marked by mass protests, labor strikes,...
