Independent Moralizing Front

The Independent Moralizing Front (Spanish: Frente Independiente Moralizador) was a Peruvian political party. At the legislative elections, 8 April 2001, the party won 11.0% of the popular vote and 11 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic. Its presidential candidate at the elections of the same day, Luis Fernando Olivera Vega, won 9.9% of the vote. It was allied with former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo's party, Peru Possible.

At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 1.5% of the popular vote but no seats in Congress. Some months after the awkward results in the 2006 elections, the party became disbanded and most of its last standing members pursued other goals.

After the dismissal of Alberto Fujimori as president of the Republic of Peru and after Valentín Paniagua assumed the position of transitional President, he called general elections for April 8, 2001. In these new elections, the Moralizing Independent Front presented, for the first time, the candidacy of Fernando Olivera Vega for the presidency of the Republic of Peru. Accompanying him on the presidential ticket were Ricardo Belmont, as First Vice President, and Eduardo Iriarte, as Second Vice President. Soon, the candidacy of Fernando Olivera became of central importance, since, during the 15 years he was in parliament in opposition (1985–2000), the issue of public integrity and the fight against corruption characterized his public work, becoming an investigator of well known cases of corruption, during the governments of Garcia and Fujimori, which earned him sympathy with a large sector of the electorate.

The results arrived on April 8, 2001, and placed Olivera in fifth place, with 9.85% of the vote. Many strategic errors were identified with the campaign during the final stretch. For example, many claimed that he attempted to elevate himself above the rest of the contenders by directing all criticisms against Alejandro Toledo, the leader in the polls and eventual winner, thus detracting from his case against, and the resultant downfall of Fujimori.

The two candidates that proceeded to the second round were Alejandro Toledo, with the Perú Posible Party and Alan García, of APRA. During the campaign, the successive errors of Toledo and his family and campaign led him to lose popularity in a very short time. However, Toledo prevailed over his rivals with 53% of the valid votes, thanks, in part, to the support of Ferando Olivera.

After terminating the alliance with Perú Posible at the end of 2005, the Independent Moralizing Front named Fernando Olivera as presidential candidate for the general election in 2006. However, due to the little support he registered in public opinion polls, he decided withdraw his candidacy for the presidency and run for Congress for the Moralizing Independent Front topping his party's list. After ending his candidacy, he states that "I am a man who believes in Peru and who believes in democracy, and because in a democracy, the people rule, I am announcing the withdrawal of my presidential candidacy and declare that, compliant with patriotic duty, I assume the responsibility of working for the rescue of Congress together with the entire FIM team and with all the Democrats of Peru.”

Before the first round, the congressmen from APRA, Jorge del Castillo, Mercedes Cabanillas and Mauricio Mulder delivered to the press a document referring to a "governing agreement" with four items that allegedly were signed by the National Unity candidate Lourdes Flores Nano and the questioned leader of FIM, Fernando Olivera. Immediately, the candidate of National Unity dismissed the existence of a governing agreement between the electoral alliance which he led and the Independent Moralizing Front.

The FIM's showing in the elections on April 9, 2006, were poor. None of the candidates on its list won their seats for the legislative period 2006–2011; further, due to not reaching the electoral threshold, the party lost its registration.