Closing date for the registration of presidential candidates
The registration period for presidential candidates closed with a total of ten candidates, including Mario Vargas Llosa (FREDEMO), Luis Alva Castro (PAP), Henry Pease García-Yrigoyen (IU), Alfonso Barrantes Lingán (IS) and Alberto Fujimori Fujimori (Cambio 90).
On October 10, 1989, the deadline for the registration of candidates for the presidential elections in Peru was October 10, 1989. A total of ten presidential candidates were registered. Among the most prominent candidates were Mario Vargas Llosa for FREDEMO, Luis Alva Castro for PAP, Henry Pease García-Yrigoyen for IU seconded by Agustín Haya de La Torre and Gustavo Mohme Llona, Alfonso Barrantes Lingán for Izquierda Socialista seconded by Enrique Bernales Ballesteros and Carlos Amat y León, and Alberto Fujimori Fujimori leading the independent list of Cambio 90, who was former president of the National Council of Rectors.