Political Career
In November 2005 Lay founded the National Restoration party, a rally of socially conservative evangelicals, which he has chaired ever since.
Although Humberto Lay Sun ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2006 elections on the National Restoration ticket, obtaining 4.38% of the valid votes, the top political leaders in Peru have taken in count as he represents an important electoral base of evangelical Christians in Peru.
For the 2011 general elections, Lay integrated his National Restoration into the Alliance for the Great Change of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and was elected Congressman for this group, as the only member of his party, and as the eldest lawmaker in the 2011-2016 congressional period.
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