Peru Elections 2011
WOLA Elections Monitor
Ruling APRA party, with no candidate of its own, endorses Kuczynski
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 numbers and a conflict with one of the party’s most important leaders, she withdrew.
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 polls indicate that populist candidate Ollanta Humala will be the top-vote getter on Sunday and will easily make it to the first round —as he did in 2006, only to be routed by Alan Garcia. But it remains unclear who among his contenders will compete with him in the second round.
About Us
WOLA Peru Experts:
* Jo-Marie Burt, WOLA Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Political Science at George Mason University. Ms. Burt is the author of Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
* Coletta Youngers, WOLA Senior Fellow. Ms. Youngers has lived in or worked on Peru since 1983 and is the author of Violencia Política y Sociedad Civil en el Perú (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2003).
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