New Majority (Spanish: Nueva Mayoría, NM), was a Peruvian right-wing political party founded in 1992 for the Democratic Constituent Congress election held on the same year.
[1] Throughout the 1990s until late-2000, was the most powerful political party in Peru alongside Cambio 90, serving more as an instrumental electoral vehicle for Alberto Fujimori.
[5] However, in 2001, during the government of Alejandro Toledo, Luz Salgado and Carmen Lozada were suspended from Congress as there were indications that linked them to crimes of corruption.
In 2002, Martha Chávez was suspended indefinitely while the Judiciary investigated her alleged links with corruption, after three years, she returned to Congress at the end of 2005, being declared acquitted of the charges for which she was accused and she was compensated the wages not received during their suspension.
In 2005, Congresswoman Martha Chávez reconvened the party and formally announced her candidacy for the presidency at the 2006 general election, as the electoral authorities rejected Fujimori's ticket with Sí Cumple.