RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – For the third consecutive year, the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, leads the list of people who should leave politics, according to the 41st Power Survey published by SEMANAeconómica magazine and carried out by Ipsos Perú.
Keiko Fujimori, who lost for the third time a presidential runoff, obtains 69% of the opinion of the respondents to the question “Which Peruvians should definitely retire from politics?”.
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THE LIST IS AS FOLLOWS:
1. Keiko Fujimori 69%
2. Vladimir Cerrón 46%
3. Pedro Castillo 27%
4. Rafael López Aliaga 26%
5. Lourdes Flores 15%
6. Hernando de Soto 9%
This Power Survey was conducted from October 25 to November 3, 2021. 185 public officials, elected authorities, politicians, intellectuals, businessmen and journalists were surveyed online.
DESTABILIZING POWER
On the other hand, according to those consulted by the Power Survey, the instability in the country is mainly caused by people linked to the Executive Branch itself, although Keiko Fujimori is not far behind. These are the answers to the question “Which people have the greatest destabilizing power in the country?”
1. Vladimir Carrón 89%
2. Pedro Castillo 40%
3. Keiko Fujimori 29%
4. Guido Bellido 20%
5. Guillermo Bermejo 19%
THE MOST POWERFUL
As for the usual list of the most powerful people in Peru in 2021, here is the order of the top 10.
1. Pedro Castillo
2. Vladimir Cerrón
3. María del Carmen Alva
4. Mirtha Vásquez
5. Pedro Francke
6. Julio Velarde
7. Keiko Fujimori
8. Carlos Rodríguez Pastor
9. César Acuña
10. Roque Benavides
INSTITUTIONS WITH MORE POWER
The institutions that are considered to have the most power in Peru are:
1. Congress 78%
2. The Executive Branch 75%
3. The media 37%
4. The business community 29%
5. The Attorney General’s Office 25%
KEIKO FUJIMORI WANTS CASTILLO TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE
On Friday, November 19, in her Twitter account, Keiko Fujimori commented: “In Fuerza Popular we believe that this government has been demonstrating a permanent incapacity to lead the country. For this reason, the party has decided to sign the presidential vacancy motion.”
This is not the first time that the Fujimori party shows a position against the continuity of a presidential mandate. Keiko has been a character with a strong presence in Peruvian politics during recent years. The daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori showed her political vocation since she was named first lady between 1994 and 2000. In 1997 she graduated in business administration at Boston University and since 2006 she began her appetite for public office by becoming a congresswoman of the Republic until 2011.
For the 2016 elections, Keiko Fujimori ran with Fuerza Popular and again went to the second round. In that case, she lost by tenths of a percentage point to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. At the time, she preferred not to recognize PPK’s triumph and spoke of irregularities in the elections to prevent her victory. “I made the mistake of not asking for a recount of the vote,” she said shortly after.
For those elections, in the congressional elections her party had swept and won 73 out of 130 seats. From the beginning, the opposition to Kuczynski was insurmountable. It lasted less than two years, largely due to constant clashes with the pro-Fujimori bench. After PPK’s resignation, Martin Vizcarra arrived, who also ended up forced out of office by Congress, including the 15 votes of Fuerza Popular.
Keiko’s third attempt to become president took place this year and was also unsuccessful. She lost in the second round against Pedro Castillo, openly accusing him of electoral fraud. Despite the fact that she signed governance agreements during the campaign, this Friday the leader of Fuerza Popular was in favor of presenting the motion of vacancy against the current president.