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(LIP-wb) -- Ollanta Humala, leader of Peru's Nationalistic Party (PNP), admitted Wednesday morning that his proposals failed to appeal and attract voters in last Sunday's regional and municipal elections because they were based on expectations that were unreal, meaning not to differentiate between Sunday's regional elections and the national/presidential elections held last April.

In his opinion, his strategies were based too much on the presidential elections in which his political grouping obtained more than 47% of the national electorate, without noticing that in the regional process, local parties and independent initiatives are superior and have the advantage.

“Technically we have been affected like most political parties. We participated in 24 regions and we haven't won in any of them”, he said.

He acknowledged that ending the alliance with the Union por el Peru (UPP) party did not play in the favor of both political movements. According to Humala, in the presidential elections the PNP united with UPP because his party wasn't enrolled. But for last Sunday, both parties were competing, therefore the "alliance had to be formal".

He maintained the fundamental problem was the proposed time frame set by the National Office of Election Processes (ONPE), which gave little time to establish an alliance. Evidently his Nationalistic party did not have enough time to position itself in Peru's regions and municipalities with a new symbol and program.

“We cannot determine the number of nationalistic votes that went away since ending the alliance with UPP”, he stressed and added that the PNP is not a political corpse but a project in progress.

Humala emphasized that the PNP is a party with weaknesses because it was founded only ten months ago. But "organizational and structural problems will be solved by 2010 and 2011," he concluded.