Democratic Party We Are Peru (Spanish: Partido Democrático Somos Perú) is a political party in Peru. At the last legislative elections, held on 8 April 2001, the party won 5.8% of the popular vote and 4 out of 120 seats in the unicameral Congress of the Republic. The party did not take part in the 2006 elections.
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