COUNTRY	Republic of Peru
ELECTION TYPE	Presidential
DATE	April 9, 2006 (First Round) May 7, 2006 (Second Round)

• The office of President of Peru

• Chief of State and Head of Government: President Alejandro TOLEDO Manrique
• Assembly: Peru has a unicameral Congress of the Republic (Congreso de la Republica) with 120 seats.

• The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 5-year term.
• In the Congress of the Republic (Congreso de la Republica) 120 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.

• Presidential Candidate: Lourdes FLORES Nano
  Coalition: National Unity / Unidad Nacional (UN)*
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Ollanta HUMALA Tasso
  Party: Peruvian Nationalist Party / Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP)
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Alan GARCIA Pérez
  Party: Peruvian Aprista Party / Partido Aprista Peruano (PAP)**
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Valentín PANIAGUA
  Alliance: Center Front / Frente del Centro (AFC)***
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Martha CHAVEZ****
  Alliance: Alliance for the Future / Alianza por el Futuro (AF 2006)

*The National Unity (Unidad Nacional) is an electoral alliance formed in 2000 by Lourdes FLORES’ Christian People’s Party (PPC) with the Renewal Party (Partido Renovación) and the Party of National Solidarity (Partido Solidaridad Nacional).

** PAP is also known by its original name the American Revolutionary People’s Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana - APRA).

*** AFC is a coalition formed by the Popular Action party (Acción Popular - AP), We are Peru (Somos Peru - SP), and the National Coordination of Independents (Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes – CNI). The number of seats won by AFC in the last election represents those won by the Popular Action party (Acción Popular - AP).

**** AF 2006 is made up of an alliance between Change ’90 (Cambio ’90- C’90) and the New Majority party (Nueva Mayoría - NM). The number of seats won by the AF 2006 in the last election represents the cumulated seats of the two parties.

• The last presidential election was held on April 8, 2001, with a runoff election held on June 3, 2001. In the runoff, Alejandro TOLEDO Manrique was elected president with 53.1% of the vote against Alan GARCIA with 46.9%. These elections took place four years ahead of schedule.

• Population: 27,925,628 (June 2005 est)
• Number of registered voters: 16,494,906 (2006)

• Peru's ex-president, Alberto FUJIMORI was barred from running in this election. According to the Electoral Tribunal, he cannot hold any public sector job or head a party list until 2011.
• A second-round election will be held on May 7, 2006 if no candidate obtains a majority of the votes on April 9.
• On April 9, voters will also elect 120 members of the Congress and five members of the Andean Parliament.

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