He Modern Peru Political Party announced on Friday, April 18, the death of its president and founder, the engineer Wilson Aragón Ponce At 78. Through a publication on its social networks, the group regretted the loss of who was its political leader. “Today he left a great man who had many dreams for Peru,” he reads in the message.
Aragon Ponce was known not only for his foray into politics, but also for his business career. As Industrial Engineerthe Santa Catalina Sa fabric factory, recognized for producing the Popular “Tigre blankets”an icon of the Peruvian market. The company, whose distribution is in the hands of the Aragon family since 1992, enjoys high demand in the winter season and is part of the historical circuit of the textile sector in the country.
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Founder of Modern Peru and Owner of Tigre blankets
In the political sphere, Wilson Aragón began his career in 2006 as a candidate for the provincial mayor of Lima for the Andean Renaissance party, without success. However, his most ambitious political project was the foundation of Modern PeruGroup that achieved its official registration only in 2023, after two failed attempts between 2005-2008 and 2021-2022. Aragon was the most visible figure of the party since its creation and was critical of current reforms such as the return to bicamerality, which considered contrary to the citizen mandate expressed in the 2018 referendum.
After the registration of Modern Peru in 2023, the leadership of Wilson Aragón allowed to attract known figures from the political and business scenario. One of the first additions was that of the exprinter Julia Príncipe, who today is part of the National Political Commission of the party. However, the case that generated more attention was that of the Entrepreneur Carlos Añañosfounder of the AJE Group, who joined the group in June 2024. Three months later, however, Añaños resigned from the presidential candidacy for discrepancies with Aragon.
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What are the proposals of Modern Peru?
Modern Peru, the party founded by Aragon, has a brief and general ideology which proposes to make Peru a country “of the first world, without corruption or organized crime.” Although it promotes an “optimistic” vision of the future, some of its first proposals – given in social networks – have been criticized for putting the constitutional order at risk.
Among them are the elimination of presidential, parliamentary and judicial immunity; the withdrawal of bank secrecy for high authorities; and the redefinition of the crime of betrayal to the country to include the theft of public funds. In addition, it raises the departure of Peru of the Pact of San José and a deep reform of the Judiciary and the Public Ministry, in line with trends similar to those that Congress approves and that threatens the independence of powers and the constitutional order.
