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National Solidarity Party Partido Solidaridad Nacional | |
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Abbreviation | PSN |
President | Luis Castañeda Lossio |
Secretary-General | Rafael López Aliaga |
Founder | Luis Castañeda Lossio |
Founded | 5 May 1998 |
Legalized | 4 May 2006 |
Dissolved | 7 October 2020 |
Split from | Popular Action |
Succeeded by | Popular Renewal |
Headquarters | Lima, Peru |
Ideology | Conservatism Economic liberalism |
Political position | Right-wing |
Website | |
solidaridadnacional.pe | |
National Solidarity Party (Spanish: Partido Solidaridad Nacional, PSN), was a conservative Peruvian political party. Founded in 1998 for the 2000 general election to support the candidacy of Luis Castañeda Lossio, a former Lima City Council member from Popular Action. Following the end of Alberto Fujimori's regime, the party formed the National Unity coalition with the Christian People's Party and other minor parties. Led by Lourdes Flores, the coalition placed third at the 2001 and 2006 general elections, while at municipal level, it won the capital city of Lima with Castañeda as the mayoral nominee.
Throughout Castañeda's first two terms as Mayor of Lima from 2003 to 2010, National Solidarity remained a strong municipal party, while at national level in the Peruvian Congress, representation was slim as the National Unity coalition was mostly dominated by Christian People's Party. For the 2011 general election, the party left the coalition to form its own eponymous one under the name of National Solidarity Alliance, with other four minor parties. With Luis Castañeda as the presidential nominee, the won 9.8% of the popular vote, placing fifth, while in the Peruvian Congress, the alliance attained 9 representatives.[1]
At the legislative elections held on 26 January 2020, the party won 1.5% of the popular vote but no seats in the Congress of the Republic under businessman Rafael López Aliaga's leadership.[2][3] Upon the results, the party announced a restructuring process, which ended in National Solidarity's re-foundation as Popular Renewal.