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His party, the Agricultural People's Front of Peru (FREPAP), was officially founded by Ataucusi on 30 September 1989.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.frepap.org.pe/historia.html|title=Historia|website=FREPAP|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref> By the 1990s, his number of followers ranged from 60,000 to 200,000.<ref name=":0" /> In 1995, investigations were opened against Ataucusi surrounding allegations of killing disagreeing followers and supposed links to [[Shining Path]], though none of the accusations were ever confirmed.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Jump Off the Face of the Earth: Adventures of an American Nurse in Amazonas|last=Balser|first=Judy|year=2014|isbn=9781496937032|pages=133–145}}</ref>
He was the party's candidate for president of Peru three times, for the [[1990 Peruvian general election|1990 election]], [[1995 Peruvian general election|1995 election]] and [[2000 Peruvian general election|2000 election]], though he was never elected for any political office.<ref name=":5">{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/28/actualidad/1580173631_292621.html|title="El agro al poder": la sorpresiva entrada de un partido teocrático en el Congreso peruano|date=30 January 2019|access-date=30 January 2020|newspaper=El País
== Death and legacy ==
He died in [[Miraflores District, Lima|Miraflores]], [[Lima]] of kidney failure and his followers held a three-day funeral, waiting for his resurrection beside his body decorated with gold jewelry.<ref name=":6" /> As his followers waited for his resurrection and his body began to decompose, Ataucusi's body was placed in a glass coffin.<ref name=":3" /> After not resurrecting, many followers became disillusioned with him.<ref name=":8" />
Ataucusi's son Jonas was chosen as his successor<ref name=":8" /> and his party eventually grew within the [[Peruvian Congress]] following the [[2020 Peruvian parliamentary election]].<ref name=":5
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