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Lima Mayor is Early Frontrunner in Peru
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - More than one-in-four Peruvians would like Luis Castañeda Lossio to become the country’s next president, according to a poll by CPI. 26.9 per cent of respondents would support the current Lima mayor in the 2011 ballot.
Keiko Sofía Fujimori—the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori—is second with 13.8 per cent, followed by former left-wing presidential candidate Ollanta Humala with 13.7 per cent, former conservative presidential candidate Lourdes Flores Nano with 12 per cent, and former president Alejandro Toledo with six per cent. Support is lower for Callao governor Alex Kouri, former Lima mayor Alberto Andrade, and current prime minister Jorge del Castillo.
In June 2006, Alan García—a member of the conservative American Revolutionary People’s Alliance (APRA)—won Peru’s presidential election in a run-off against nationalist Humala of the Union for Peru (UP). 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.
Fujimori served as Peru’s president from 1990 to 2000. He left office after a series of corruption allegations and settled in Japan—the homeland of his parents—where he lived in a self-imposed exile. In July 2003, the Peruvian government officially requested Fujimori’s extradition, which was denied. In November 2005, Fujimori was detained in Chile on the basis of an international warrant.
Last year, Fujimori was ordered to return to Peru, where he is currently on trial. The former president faces charges of misuse of public funds, kidnapping and murder. In the early 1990s, he launched a crackdown on armed groups. A government-backed paramilitary squad known as the Colina Group was involved in two separate operations, which left 25 people dead in 1991 and 1992. If convicted, Fujimori could be sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Castañeda Lossio was elected mayor of Lima in 2003. He is the founder and president of the centre-right National Solidarity (SN) party, a component of the National Unity (UN) coalition.
Earlier this month, tensions rose within the UN coalition as Castañeda Lossio and Flores Nano—leader of the Popular Christian Party (PPC), also a component of UN—expressed differing views about the performance of García. While Lima’s mayor praised the president for doing a "good job" in leading the country, Flores Nano—who finished third in the 2006 election—said he "doesn’t know how to govern."
Polling Data
Which of these politicians would you support as a presidential candidate in 2011?
|
Luis Castañeda Lossio |
26.9% |
|
Keiko Sofía Fujimori |
13.8% |
|
Ollanta Humala |
13.7% |
|
Lourdes Flores Nano |
12.0% |
|
Alejandro Toledo |
6.0% |
|
Alex Kouri |
3.0% |
|
Alberto Andrade |
2.3% |
|
Jorge del Castillo |
2.1% |
|
Other leaders |
7.8% |
|
None of these |
4.3% |
|
Not sure / No opinion |
8.1% |
Source: CPI
Methodology: Interviews with 1,300 Peruvian adults, conducted from Feb. 28 to Mar. 4, 2008. Margin of error is 2.9 per cent.