The party was founded by
Cesar Acuña Peralta in Trujillo in 2001, who was elected as Congressman for the
National Solidarity Party in 2000. In 2006, the party participated in the general elections of that year with
Natale Amprimo as its party candidate for President with the leader
Cesar Acuña Peralta as its candidate for First Vice President. The presidential ticket itself attained 0.4% of the popular vote, placing tenth. Following the 2006 general election's poor results, Alliance for Progress lost its party registration in the
National Jury of Elections alongside the rest of the parties that failed to pass the threshold in 2007, but it regained its party registration the following year. Having already established his party, Acuña was elected mayor of Trujillo in 2007 and was re-elected mayor in 2010. Since 2010, the party was part of the
Alliance for the Great Change, made up of
Peruvian Humanist Party,
Christian People's Party,
National Restoration and Alliance for Progress, this alliance was led by
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who unsuccessfully ran for president in the
2011 Peruvian general election. In these elections, APP obtained two of the 130 seats in the
Congress of the Republic. In June 2012, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) fined the party more than 9 million soles for having received contributions ten times greater than the allowed limit from the César Vallejo University, owned by César Acuña. In 2014, Acuña was elected regional governor of the department of La Libertad, defeating José Murgia of
APRA but, he resigned from his position as governor in less than one year to run for president in 2016. By the time of the
2016 general election, the Alliance for the Great Change was no longer active. Instead, Alliance for Progress led the electoral coalition known as the
Alliance for the Progress of Peru, alongside National Restoration and
We Are Peru, nominating Acuña as its presidential candidate. However, on March 9, the National Elections Jury barred him from participating in the presidential election for violating the Political Parties Law. Despite his disqualification, the coalition participated in the congressional elections held on April 10, where it obtained 9.2% of the popular vote and won 9 out of 130 seats in the Congress. The party later won 22 seats in the Congress following the
2020 snap parliamentary elections, an increase compared to its 2016 result. For the
2021 general elections, Alliance for Progress formed an alliance with
Christian People's Party. The alliance was officially signed on 12 October 2020, but lasted only six days, upon the revelation of disconformity from PPC's leadership, most prominently from the party Secretary General,
Marisol Pérez Tello, who rejected Acuña by stating "she would not support a plagiarizer". Illegal audios were revealed by the press, and the alliance broke off almost immediately. Subsequently, Alliance for Progress nominated Cesar Acuña once again for the presidency and, he ultimately placed seventh with 6% of the popular vote in a heavily atomized election, managing to win
La Libertad Region only, the party's stronghold, although the party achieved congressional representation, winning 15 seats, a loss of seven from the previous congressional term. == Political position ==