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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—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
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