Hayist Bases Movement

Hayist Bases Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Bases Hayistas, MBH) was a splinter group of Peruvian Aprista Party that was founded in 1980.^[1] Led by Andrés Townsend and Francisco Diez Canseco Távara, the party claimed to be the true heirs of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre's ideology, as the official party swift to a more populist agenda with the leadership of Armando Villanueva (who lost the 1980 general election to Fernando Belaúnde), and Alan García, with the latter winning the Presidency in 1985.

Hayist Bases Movement Movimiento de Bases Hayistas
Abbreviation	MBH
President	Andrés Townsend
Founded	1981
Dissolved	1993
Split from	Peruvian Aprista Party
Headquarters	Lima
Ideology	Social democracy Conservative socialism Social conservatism Republicanism
Political position	Centre-left to right-wing

For the 1985 general election, Townsend and the party reached an agreement with the Christian People's Party in order to run as an alliance named Democratic Convergence. The coalition's presidential nominee, Luis Bedoya Reyes, won 11.9% of the popular vote, placing third.^[2]

References

1. PERÚ, Diario El Comercio. "El testamento de Haya". elcomercio.pe. from the original on 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
2. PERÚ, ONPE. "ELECCIONES GENERALES 1985 - Nacional (Presidente)" (PDF). web.onpe.gob.pe. (PDF) from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2020-09-29.