Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Christian People's Party, or PPC, was founded by Luis Bedoya Reyes on the 18th of December 1966. Bedoya was serving as mayor of Lima at the time and led a group of dissidents who broke from the Christian Democratic Party over objections to members they considered sympathetic to Marxism.
The National Jury of Elections revoked the PPC's registration in 2000 under orders of the Fujimori administration. The action followed the PPC's proposal of legislation that would have allowed a referendum on whether Alberto Fujimori could seek a constitutionally contested third presidential term.
The PPC has lost its party registration twice. The first time was in 2000, at the direction of the Fujimori administration. The second was on the 7th of September 2021, when the National Jury of Elections deregistered the party alongside fifteen others after the 2021 election. It regained registration on the 10th of May 2024.
Lourdes Flores was the PPC's most prominent figure during the 2000s, serving as the National Unity coalition's presidential candidate in both the 2001 and 2006 general elections. She placed third both times, each time missing the run-off by a narrow margin. She also ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Lima in 2010.
The alliance was officially signed on the 12th of October 2020 but collapsed within six days. The PPC's Secretary General, Marisol Pérez Tello, publicly rejected Acuña, saying she would not support a plagiarizer. The breakdown was accelerated by the release of illegal audio recordings reported in the press.
The PPC formed an alliance with the party Unidad y Paz in July 2025, with Roberto Chiabra as the coalition's presidential candidate for the 2026 general election. The alliance was approved at an extraordinary party congress.