The Peruvian Nationalist Party (Spanish: Partido Nacionalista Peruano) is a political party in Peru.
Ollanta Humala was the Peruvian Nationalist Party's candidate for the 2006 presidential elections. The candidates of the party ran under the lists of the Union for Peru.
In 2010, PNP formed the alliance Peru Wins ("Gana Perú") to participate in 2011 presidential elections. In the runoff vote on June 5 Olanta Humala was elected President. He has taken office on July 28, 2011.
The Nationalist Party itself describes its ideology as standing on the four pillars of anti-imperialism, democratic republicanism, "Andean-Amazonic socialism" and Latinamericanism. It calls José Carlos Mariátegui, Jorge Basadre, and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre its ideological forethinkers.
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“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”
—Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986)
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ... “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan,”controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.””
—George Orwell (1903–1950)