Upon his registration, the party filed a name-change to be reorganized into National Victory for the general election.[23] Pedro Castillo is Free Peru's nominee and schoolteacher from Cajamarca.[24] He is a former Ronda Campesina that defended rural areas from the Shining Path in the 1980s,[25][26] and a politician with the centre-left party Possible Peru from 2002 to 2017.[27] He gained attention in 2017, as he led multiple teacher strikes in five regions against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration.[28] Castillo has called for the renegotiation of government contracts with large businesses and to rewrite the constitution to protect Peruvians from foreign control.[25] Keiko Fujimori is the leader of the conservative and far-right[29][30][31] Popular Force.