June 2011
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Peru: What's Next for Humala?
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers, June 17, 2011
Reprinted from Foreign Policy in Focus:
http://www.fpif.org/articles/peru_whats_next_for_humala
Left-wing candidate Ollanta Humala emerged the victor in the most highly polarized and contested presidential elections in Peru’s recent history, in which polls showed the candidates in a statistical dead heat going into the June 5 vote. Humala...
Humala’s Victory in Peru’s Elections Inspire Hope,...
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
With nearly 99.697 percent of the vote counted as of this morning, Ollanta Humala has maintained a three point lead over Keiko Fujimori, assuring his victory in Peru’s hotly contested presidential elections. Humala has maintained his three point lead, with 51.5 percent of the vote compared to 48.5 percent for Keiko Fujimori. Humala’s win was hailed by many...
WatchWOLA Senior Fellow Jo-Marie Burt discusses Ollanta Humala’s victory in Peru and challenges he will face when he assumes the presidency on July 28 on Al Jazeera English (June 5, 2011).
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Political Polarization: Humala's First Challenge
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
With Ollanta Humala the virtual winner of Peru’s presidential elections, it is time to think about the very real challenges he faces as he prepares to take office on July 28, 2011.
Before analyzing the real policy and governance challenges facing Humala, we thought it important to examine an immediate challenge he faces: the need to calm the waters in...
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At 88% of Official Count, Humala Close to being...
by Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
The most recent results posted by Peruvian electoral officials early Monday morning confirm the victory of Ollanta Humala in Peru’s hotly contested elections. With 88.375% of the vote counted, Humala has won 51.276% of the vote, while Keiko Fujimori has 48.724%.
Last night, Humala gave a brief speech in which he noted that the results of the quick count...
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Transparency quick count confirms Humala victory...
by Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
The elections watchdog group Transparencia released the results of its quick count in today’s presidential elections, confirming the earlier exit poll results giving a victory to Ollanta Humala in today’s presidential elections. According to Transparency, Humala obtained 51.3% of the valid votes, while Keiko Fujimori obtained 48.7%.
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Exit Polls Show Humala Victory in Peru...
by Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
Polls closed in today’s second-round presidential elections in Peru.
All three exit polls that have been released to date show Ollanta Humala as the winner of today’s elections.
Ipsos Apoyo: Ollanta Humala 52.6% Keiko Fujimori 47.4%
Datum: Ollanta Humala 52.7% Keiko Fujimori...
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Polarized Peruvian Electorate Votes Today for...
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
Left-wing candidate Ollanta Humala appears to have a slight edge as Peruvians vote today in the most hotly contested election in the nation’s history. The final polls taken before today’s vote all show Humala overtaking Keiko Fujimori, who had been leading slightly, by 1 to 4 points, though given the margin of error most polls still show them in a...
Is the U.S. Neutral in Peru’s Elections?
By Coletta A. Youngers
With less than a week to go before Sunday’s vote, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Noriega, presented a report to the Peruvian government purporting to document Venezuelan government support for the campaign of presidential contender Ollanta Humala. According to Noriega, “We have a very sensitive source in Venezuela who says...
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Will Alberto Fujimori be set free?
By Jo-Marie Burt
On April 7, 2009 former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was convicted for human rights violations in three cases: the Barrios Altos massacre, the forced disappearance of nine students and a professor from La Cantuta University, and the kidnappings of journalist Gustavo Gorriti and Samuel Dyer.
The legal proceedings against Fujimori demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that he...
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Peru Elections Near: A Look at the Candidates
Part II: Ollanta Humala
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
After having come close to winning the Peruvian presidential elections in 2006, Ollanta Humala will once again compete in the final round of voting this Sunday, June 5, to determine who will be Peru’s next president; this time however, the outcome is far less certain than was the case the last time around when he faced Alan Garcia....
May 2011
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Peru Elections Near: A Look at the Candidates
Part I: Keiko Fujimori
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta Youngers
With Peru’s second round elections less than two weeks away, the likely outcome is still anybody’s guess. Several polls now show Keiko Fujimori with a slight lead over Ollanta Humala, but taking into account the margins of error of the polls —as well as the fact that many do not reflect the rural vote— the fact is that there is a...
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Giuliani, Fujimori and me: Nostalgia for the...
by Jo-Marie Burt
I lived part of the 1990s in Lima during the time of Alberto Fujimori. I lived the other part of the 1990s in New York when Rudolph Giuliani was mayor. Now, the mayor whose administration was criticized for being authoritarian and abusive, is advising (in terms of crime policy) the daughter of the former president (and now convicted felon) who was also criticized for being...
April 2011
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Peru’s Upcoming Presidential Elections and...
Peru’s Upcoming Presidential Elections and Fujimori’s Authoritarian Legacy
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
Two polls released this week show Ollanta Humala with a small lead over Keiko Fujimori as the campaign heats up for the second round of voting in Peru’s presidential elections. With more than a month to go before the June 5 vote, it is far too soon to predict the electoral...
Keiko Fujimori: De tal palo tal astilla
Por Jo-Marie Burt
Para llegar a la segunda vuleta de las elecciones presidenciales, Keiko Fujimori se ha cubierto del manto del legado de su padre. En más de una ocasión ha afirmado que el gobierno de Alberto Fujimori fue el mejor que ha tendio el Perú en toda su historia. Ahora que busca ir mas allá del voto naranja, intenta moderar su discurso.
Para llegar a la segunda vuleta de las...
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Peruvian election analysis: Why yesterday's...
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta Youngers
Lima (April 11, 2011) – One day after Peru’s elections for president and congress, all indications are that Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori will compete in the June 5 run-off. The question on many people’s minds is why these two candidates made it into the second round, given that they had the highest negative ratings of the leading candidates. Polls prior...
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Humala and Fujimori likely to compete in second...
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Younger
Lima (April 10, 2011)—Transparencia, the election monitoring group, has released its quick count, with 74% of the voting tables counted. The results, with a 1.5% margin of error, are not expected to change, and are similar to the quick count being reported by Ipsos APOYO. The Transparencia results are as follow:
Ollanta Humala 31.3%
Keiko Fujimori...
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Peru Election Update: A View from Villa El...
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta A. Youngers
Lima (April 10, 2011)—This morning, members of the WOLA elections observation delegation visited polling sites in Villa El Salvador, a sprawling popular district in Lima’s Southern Cone. Peruvians stood in line across the district to cast their ballot for president and congressional representatives.
One elderly woman, a veteran of the left, said,...
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Twitter and Peru's elections: Remembering the...
By Jo-Marie Burt
Twitter became a popular medium through which average Peruvians sought to remind their fellow citizens of the corruption and human rights violations that occurred during the Fujimori government and what might occur should Keiko Fujimori be elected president. Many Peruvians began tweeting using the hashtag #tupapa (#yourdaddy) to remind their fellow citizens of some of the...
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Ruling APRA party, with no candidate of its own,...
By Cynthia McClintock
APRA has long been considered Peru’s only institutionalized party. Yet, in the 2011 presidential elections, the party is not fielding a candidate and it is expected that the party will have only a small representation in Peru’s congress. At first, former economics minister Mercedes Araoz was to be the party’s presidential candidate, but, amid low poll...
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Latest poll puts Humala and Fujimori in lead in...
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta Youngers
Lima (April 9, 2011)—The latest poll, taken today, confirms the trends of the past few days of a strong lead for Ollanta Humala, with Keiko Fujimori pulling out slightly ahead of the remaining candidates for second place in Peru’s elections schedule for tomorrow. The poll, taken by Ipsos APOYO, shows Humala at 28.1 percent and Keiko Fujimori at 21.1...
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Political Uncertainty as Peru Elections Approach
By Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta Youngers
Peruvians head to the polls on Sunday, April 10 in what are shaping up to be the most volatile and unpredictable presidential and congressional elections in recent memory. With no candidate likely to get the 50 percent of the vote needed to win in the first round, a second round of voting for President on June 5 is virtually assured. The most recent...
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WOLA to observe Peru elections
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is traveling to Peru to observe the elections. Stay tuned for analysis and commentary on Peru’s 2011 presidential race.
