Democratic Front (Peru)

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Democratic Front Frente Democrático

Abbreviation	FREDEMO
Leader	Mario Vargas Llosa
Founded	1988
Dissolved	1990
Ideology	Economic liberalism Christian democracy Factions: Reformism Social conservatism Republicanism
Political position	Centre-right
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Democratic Front (Spanish: Frente Democrático), also known as FREDEMO (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾeˈð̞e.mo]), was a center-right^[1] economically liberal and social conservative political alliance in Peru founded in 1988 by Liberty Movement, Popular Action and Christian People's Party. FREDEMO contested the 1989 municipal elections and the 1990 presidential elections (with famous author Mario Vargas Llosa as its candidate).^[2]

Electoral history

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Presidential elections

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Year	Candidate		Coalition	Votes	Percentage	Outcome
1990	Mario Vargas Llosa		Democratic Front AP-PPC-ML	1st Round: 2 163 323	1st Round: 32.57	1st Round: 1st
1990	Mario Vargas Llosa		Democratic Front AP-PPC-ML	2nd Round: 2 708 291	2nd Round: 37.62	2nd Round: 2nd

Elections to the Congress of the Republic

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Year	Votes	%	Seats	/	Position
1990	1 492 513	30.1%	62 / 180	62	Minority

Elections to the Senate

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Year	Votes	%	Seats	/	Position
1990	1 791 077	32.3%	20 / 62	19	Minority

References

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↑ Smith, James F. (1988-11-15). "Despite Bids at Reform, Runaway Inflation Wracks Peru". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-06-02. "Only Alan Garcia can benefit from a dictatorship," said Vargas Llosa, founder of the new center-right Liberty Movement and the candidate of the Democratic Front, a center-right coalition that includes Popular Action, the party led by former President Fernando Belaunde.
↑ Mitchell, Timothy (2005). "The work of economics: how a discipline makes its world". European Journal of Sociology. 46 (2): 299–310. doi:10.1017/S000397560500010X. S2CID 146456853.

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Electoral history

Presidential elections

Elections to the Congress of the Republic

Elections to the Senate

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