Go on Country – Social Integration Party (Spanish: Avanza País – Partido de Integración Social) is a Peruvianpolitical party. In 2020, almost 15 years since its last participation in a general election, economist Hernando de Soto registered in the party in order to run for the presidency at the 2021 general election.[11] He placed fourth in the election.[12][13]
History
In early 2005, a party under the same name registered in the National Elections Jury and participated in the 2006 general election.[14] At the legislativeelections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 1.1% of the popular vote but no seats in the Congress of the Republic and its presidential ticket itself attained 0.2%, placing fourteenth nationally.[15] After losing its formal registration as a political organization, the party began a re-founding stage on May 10, 2017, culminating in a new registration on the same year.[16]
In December 2021, Hernando de Soto left the party following a dispute for its control between Aldo Borrero Rojas, the leader of the party, and Edwin de la Cruz Ponce, the general secretary, who was previously removed but continued to denounce his removal.[18][19] Following his departure, De Soto described the party as being far-right after members of Advance Country supported amnesty for authorities following massacres in Ayacucho and Juliaca during the widespread protests against President Dina Boluarte.[20]
The party does not have an official stance on social issues as it once did, as can be evidenced by the fact that the respective leading figures for de Soto's presidential campaign, Instituto Politico para la Libertad Peru (IPL) vice president, Beltrán Gomez Hijar, and IPL member and congressman Alejandro Cavero, have supported pro-LGBT and pro-choice causes, whereas congresswoman Adriana Tudela, daughter of former Vice PresidentFrancisco Tudela, is opposed to abortion.[25][26]
Under de Soto's leadership, the party is described by analysts and pundits as right-leaning on the political spectrum.[27] According to Georgetown University political scientist Eliana Carlín, de Soto was the one who chose the party for his election run, and the party welcomed him due to his international prominence in the economic academia. In Carlin's opinion, the party is an "electoral vehicle" that reached an agreement with de Soto and that "they are not interested in ideology".[28]
Controversies
Go on Country, in a journalistic column of RPP, was accused of surrogacy due to the incorporation of members who had no relationship with the party months prior.[29] Despite this, party president Pedro Cenas rejected the notion of his party functioning as a surrogate and stated that "politics is not a commodity, but an act of faith and integration".[30]
Rotundo, Oscar (24 August 2021). "Nuestra América debe acompañar al legitimo gobierno de Perú". Noticias Pia. Retrieved 16 April 2023. ...partidos políticos como Fuerza Popular del clan Fujimori, la centroderechista Alianza Para el Progreso, el conservador Podemos y el liberal Avanza País, que conforman la mayoría parlamentaria...
^Stemmler, Quincy (14 December 2022). "Zahl der Toten steigt: Anhaltende Proteste in Peru". Amerika21 (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2023. "Extremisten verkleidet als Demonstranten nutzen die Proteste, um subversive und vandalische Aktionen durchzuführen", kommentiert Patricia Chirinos von der rechtsliberalen Partei Avanza Pais.
^ • Stemmler, Quincy (11 August 2022). "Peru: Präsidentin Boluarte sucht Unterstützung bei Rechtsparteien". Amerika21 (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2023. Neben Fujimori traf sich Boluarte vergangene Woche auch mit Mitgliedern der Mitte-Rechts-Parteien Somos Perú und Alianza Para el Progreso sowie der Rechtspartei Avanza País.
Teruggi, Marco (12 January 2023). "Die Krise eskaliert". Nachrichtenpool Lateinamerika (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2023. Die rechten Parteien im Kongress wie Fuerza Popular, APP, Avanza País und Renovación Popular sicherten der Regierung eine Mehrheit [...]
Baumgart, Andreas (27 December 2023). "Davongekommen!". Infostelle Peru e.V. (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2023. Deshalb kam eine am 18. November erfolgte Initiative zum Sturz des Präsidenten seitens der Abgeordneten Patricia Chirinos von der rechten Partei Avanza Pais doch überraschend.
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