Later that year, he allied with the Popular Force party in order to run for Mayor once again, this time losing against Elidio Espinoza Quispe, a former Police Colonel.

In July 2019, Salaverry joined the United for the Republic parliamentary group in order to be eligible to run for reelection as President of Congress.

He was ultimately defeated by conservative leader Pedro Olaechea, who was supported by the entire Popular Force party.

[7] On October 22, 2018, after many discrepancies with his colleagues on the bench, he requested a license from Fuerza Popular in order to maintain impartiality in the decisions he made as head of the Congress.

On 5 September 2020, he announced his official candidacy for the presidency of the Republic for the 2021 general elections, this time under the We Are Peru party in which he had been affiliated since June of the same year.

[12] In March 2021, he declared that part of his program involves radicalizing immigration control and expelling the undocumented, generating rejection on social networks.

[citation needed] As of 2021, he had an open investigation in the Public Ministry after being accused of falsifying his reports during his tenure as congressman.