(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – People in Peru are not showing much enthusiasm for a list of potential presidential candidates, according to a poll by CPI. 21.1 per cent of respondents would vote for the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, lawmaker Keiko Sofía Fujimori, in the 2011 ballot.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – People in Peru are not showing much enthusiasm for a list of potential presidential candidates, according to a poll by CPI. 21.1 per cent of respondents would vote for the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, lawmaker Keiko Sofía Fujimori, in the 2011 ballot.
Lima mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio is second with 18.4 per cent, followed by former president Alejandro Toledo with 11.9 per cent, nationalist leader Ollanta Humala with 11.8 per cent, and former conservative presidential candidate Lourdes Flores Nano with 10.2 per cent.
Support is lower for former prime ministers Yehude Simón, Jorge del Castillo and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, as well as Christian leader and pastor Humberto Lay, and former commander general of the armed forces Edwin Donayre.
In June 2006, Alan García—a member of the American Revolutionary People’s Alliance (APRA)—won Peru’s presidential election in a run-off against Humala, a nationalist. In July, García officially took over as president. He had previously served as Peru’s head of state from 1985 to 1990, when he oversaw a major economic crisis.
On Aug. 4, Flores Nano reiterated her wish to create an alliance encompassing her own Popular Christian Party (PPC) and two other centrist parties—Possible Peru (PP) and National Solidarity (SN)—ahead of the next presidential election, saying, "Hopefully we will have the maturity to reach a path of understanding. I think the alliance should not be improvised."
Polling Data
Which of these politicians would you support as a presidential candidate in 2011?
|
|
Aug. 2009 |
Apr. 2009 |
Feb. 2009 |
|
Keiko Sofía Fujimori |
21.1% |
21.5% |
14.8% |
|
Luis Castañeda Lossio |
18.4% |
15.8% |
20.5% |
|
Alejandro Toledo |
11.9% |
10.1% |
11.1% |
|
Ollanta Humala |
11.8% |
12.8% |
15.1% |
|
Lourdes Flores Nano |
10.2% |
11.1% |
12.9% |
|
Yehude Simón |
2.6% |
2.4% |
2.0% |
|
Jorge del Castillo |
1.9% |
n.a. |
n.a. |
|
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski |
1.3% |
2.5% |
2.8% |
|
Humberto Lay |
1.2% |
n.a. |
n.a. |
|
Edwin Donayre |
1.1% |
1.6% |
1.9% |
|
The APRA candidate |
n.a. |
1.9% |
2.2% |
|
César Acuña |
n.a. |
1.5% |
1.3% |
Source: CPI
Methodology: Interviews with 1,450 Peruvian adults, conducted from Aug. 1 to Aug. 6, 2009. Margin of error is 2.9 per cent.
