Pérez Godoy ran a short transitional government and held new elections in 1963, which were won by Belaúnde by a more comfortable but still narrow five percent margin.

Peru Possible's presidential candidate for the 2006 election, Rafael Belaúnde Aubry, along with the vice-presidential candidates, pulled out of the race on 31 January.

Fernando Belaúnde Terry ( October 7, 1912 – June 4, 2002 ) was President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms ( 1963 – 1968 and 1980 – 1985 ).

During the dictatorship of Augusto B. Leguía, the persecution for the political activities of his father Rafael and his uncle Víctor Andrés Belaúnde prompted the family to move to France in 1924, where Fernando attended high school and received his initial University education in engineering.

Belaúnde would return to the political arena in 1956, when the outgoing Odría dictatorship called for elections and he led the slate submitted by the " National Front of Democratic Youth ", an organization formed by reform-minded university students, some of which had studied under him ; his principled support for the " La Prensa " newspaper, which had been closed down by the dictatorship in early 1956, had prompted the leadership of the National Front to approach him as to lead its slate.

When the confrontation looked to turn violent, Belaúnde showed the gift for symbolism that would serve him well throughout his political life ; calming down the demonstrators and armed solely with a Peruvian flag, he crossed alone the gap separating the demonstrators from the police to deliver an ultimatum to the police chief that his candidacy be accepted.

In 1959, the Prado government's refusal to authorize the permits for Accion Popular annual convention led to another confrontation: Belaúnde led the opening of the convention in defiance of the prohibition, and the Prado government arrested and jailed him in the Alcatraz-like island prison of El Frontón off the Lima coast.

In response to Chile's support of Britain, Belaúnde called for Latin American unity.

Belaúnde died in Lima in 2002 at age 89 with the most spectacular funeral ever held for a former President in the country's history.

The AP had significant electoral success, attaining the presidency in 1963 and 1980, but the party was more of an electoral machine for the persona of Belaúnde than an institutionalized organization.

In June 1963 he was elected to Congress as a representative for Cusco in the joint list of Acción Popular ( AP ) and PDC, an alliance that catapulted the leader of AP, Fernando Belaúnde, to the presidency of the country.

* Popular Action-Union for Peru ( Fernando Belaúnde and José Vega ): 6 seats.

A riot ensued outside the stadium and led the President Fernando Belaúnde Terry to declare a state of emergency which would last for a month.

Lindley restored the schedule for democratic elections and turned over the office of president to election winner Fernando Belaúnde.

The MSP contested the 1962 elections, presenting Alberto Ruiz Eldredge as their Presidential candidate, but struggled for support due to the similarity of their programme to that of Popular Action and their lack of a charismatic leader in the mould of Fernando Belaúnde Terry.

Prominent politicians supported this move: former President Fernando Belaúnde Terry and most of the Acción Popular Party supported San Román, while former FREDEMO presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa called for a civil insurgency to overthrow Fujimori.

Commissioned by President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and designed by a team headed in part by architect Enrique Ciriani, San Felipe was designed to combine a high residential density with ample green space, and shopping, banking, and schooling opportunities for residents, and is widely considered the cornerstone of Jesús María's middle-class identity.

Additionally, the president, Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who returned to power in 1980, was reluctant to cede authority to the armed forces, as his first government had ended in a military coup.

At the time, President Fernando Belaúnde Terry was receiving the Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín.

The split among the Apristas allowed former president Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Acción Popular to win the election.

* 4 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, democratic president of Peru, 1963 – 1968 and 1980 – 1985.

* June 4-Former president of Peru, Fernando Belaúnde Terry.

In 1968, Juan Velasco Alvarado overthrew president Fernando Belaúnde by a Coup d ' état, closing again the Congress.

Three main candidates participated in the Peruvian presidential elections of 10 June 1962: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder and leader of the APRA, future president Fernando Belaúnde, and former dictator Manuel A. Odría.

Future president Fernando Belaúnde Terry was also present during the party's foundation.

Finally a high-value target, the frigate HMS Ariadne, arrived at Gibraltar on May 2, but Anaya again refused permission, this time because the President of Peru, Fernando Belaúnde, had just produced a comprehensive peace plan and Anaya believed this might produce a peaceful resolution to the conflict, but which could be undermined by a successful attack in Gibraltar.

Belaúnde Aubry was until recently leader of another party, Acción Popular, which was founded by his father and former President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and was invited by Peru Possible to represent the party in the elections.

In the elections of May 18, 1980, he was re-elected to Congress, and his party boss, Belaúnde, won his second presidency.

Torn between two wings, one sympathetic to the Cuban revolution and the other prepared to work with the new Belaúnde government, the MSP disappeared from the political scene soon after the 1962 elections as its leading members drifted to other groups including both Popular Action and opposition groups to the left.

During the elections, the PPC allied with the soon-to-be elected President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, from Acción Popular.

This time Belaúnde won with 39 % of the vote.

During the Belaúnde Administration, Odría made an alliance with Haya de la Torre to create a single opposition block in Parliament, which became known as the APRA-UNO Coalition.

Belaúnde also directed the construction, along with other professors and students, of the faculty of architecture of the National University of Engineering in 1955.

The government capitulated, and the striking image of Belaúnde walking by himself with the flag was featured by the news magazine Caretas the following day, in an article entitled " Así Nacen Los Lideres " (" This is how Leaders are Born ").

In August 1968, the Belaúnde Administration announced the settlement of a long-standing dispute with a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey over claims to the rich La Brea and Pariñas oil fields.

A further cause of anger was the fact that the document of agreement was given by Belaúnde to the press with the final page eleven missing and signatures were squeezed at the bottom of page ten.

At the outbreak of the 1982 Falklands War between Argentina and Britain, Belaúnde declared that " Peru was ready to support Argentina with all the resources it needed.

The deposed Belaúnde administration had attempted to implement a milder agrarian reform program, but it had been defeated in Congress by the APRA-UNO coalition with support of the major landowners.

It became effective in 1980 with the re-election of deposed President Fernando Belaúnde.

Among the positions Víctor Andrés Belaúnde occupied throughout his professional career were the following: Secretary of the File of Limits of the Ministry of External Relations of Peru, becoming Secretary in the Diplomatic Mission to Spain and Argentina, Consultant in the bordering negotiations with Brazil, Chargé d ' affaires in Germany ( 1914 ) and Bolivia ( 1945 ), Plenipotentiary Secretary in Uruguay in 1919, Colombia in 1934 and in Switzerland in 1936, President of the Peruvian delegation before the Society of Nations ( 1945 ), where he had the opportunity of subscribing the San Francisco Letter, which gave origin to the Organization of the United Nations, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations ( 1959 ), Rector pro tempore ( 1946 – 1947 ) and finally Rector of the Catholic University of Peru ( 1965 ).

As a result of this failure and the coup that overthrew Manuel Prado Ugarteche the PDC threw in their lot with the Popular Action and as such returned to Congress in 1963 as junior partners in the coalition supporting new President Fernando Belaúnde Terry.