Elections in Peru 2011

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Ollanta Humala, winner of the presidential election

The 2011 elections in Peru took place on April 10, 2011. The runoff election for the presidency was scheduled for June 5th. It was decided to fill the following positions for the next five years:

Since none of the presidential candidates could achieve an absolute majority, a runoff election between Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori was held on June 5 , which was won by Humala. Humala was sworn in as Peru's 94th President on July 28, 2011. After a constitutional reform in 2009, the Peruvians elected 130 congressmen instead of the previous 120 for the first time.

Keiko Fujimori, the losing candidate in the runoff election

Presidential candidates

The incumbent President Alan García was not allowed to run again because the constitution does not allow two consecutive terms. The candidate of his APRA party , Mercedes Aráoz , has withdrawn her candidacy. There remained 11 candidates. The most important were:

candidate Party / coalition Others
Alejandro Toledo Alianza Perú Posible Toledo was president from 2001 to 2006.
Ollanta Humala Partido Nacionalista Peruano Narrowly lost to Alan García in the second ballot in the 2006 presidential election.
Keiko Fujimori Fuerza 2011 The daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori .
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Alianza por el Gran Cambio Economy and Prime Minister during the Toledo presidency.
Luis Castañeda Alianza Solidaridad Nacional Former Mayor of Lima .

Survey

month Institute Alejandro Toledo Ollanta Humala Keiko Fujimori Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Luis Castañeda
September 2010 CPI 14.6% 9.8% 19.6% 1.2% 23.1%
March 2011 IMA 23.9% 21.9% 17.6% 16.9% 13.8%
April 2011 date 16.7% 26.5% 19.4% 15.6% 10.1%

First ballot

National majority in the first round of voting (the degree of coloration indicates the distance to the competitors):
  • Ollanta Humala
  • Keiko Fujimori
  • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
  • Alejandro Toledo
    • National majority in the second ballot:
  • Ollanta Humala
  • Keiko Fujimori

    • There was compulsory voting and the participation was almost 85%. Over ten percent of the votes cast were invalid or empty. The valid votes were distributed as follows:

    Ollanta Humala Keiko Fujimori Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Alejandro Toledo Luis Castañeda Others
    31.7% 23.6% 18.5% 15.6% 9.8% 0.8%

    The two candidates with the most votes, Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori , were decided in a runoff on June 5th .

    Congress elections

    Gana Peru Fuerza 2011 Alianza Electoral Perú Posible Alianza por el Gran Cambio Alianza Solidaridad Nacional Partido Aprista Peruano
    25.27% (47 seats) 22.97% (37 seats) 14.83% (21 seats) 14.42% (12 seats) 10.22% (9 seats) 6.43% (4 seats)

    Second ballot

    The two remaining candidates took very different political positions and the election campaign was marked by polarization. Humala named as his goals a fairer distribution of income from the country's natural resources. Despite the high income from mining, large parts of the population are currently very poor. He also mentioned the maintenance of the mostly high economic growth in recent years. Above all, he was viewed critically by companies and parts of the middle class because of his critical views on capitalism and his closeness to Hugo Chavez, which was emphasized during the 2006 election campaign . In the 2011 campaign, however, Humala publicly distanced himself from this and cited the former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a role model. Keiko Fujimori spoke out in favor of a liberalized economic policy and a stricter security policy. She received criticism from, among other things, human rights organizations who feared her father's policy would continue.

    Before the second ballot, the two retired candidates Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Luis Castañeda spoke out in favor of Fujimori. Alejandro Toledo supported Humala in the runoff election. The former Peruvian presidential candidate and writer Mario Vargas Llosa also supported this, although his political stance differs significantly from that of Humalas. Although it is a choice between AIDS and terminal cancer , under Keiko Fujimori there is a risk of a return to dictatorship and therefore Humala is the lesser evil.

    51.45 percent of the voters voted for Humala and 48.55 percent for Fujimori. Humala became the new President of Peru on July 28th.

    In the second round of voting, voting computers were used for the first time on a trial basis in the Paracán district ( Cañete province ).

    Web links

    See also

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ Result of the Peruvian runoff elections on June 5, 2011 . El Comercio . Retrieved June 8, 2011.
    2. ↑ Peruvian parliament has 10 more members . Infoamazonas. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
    3. ↑ Survey CPI September 2010 (PDF; 973 kB) Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cpi.com.pe
    4. ↑ IMA survey March 2011 . Retrieved March 30, 2011.
    5. ↑ Survey date April 2011 . Retrieved April 10, 2011.
    6. ↑ Result of the 1st ballot . Archived from the original on April 11, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
    7. ↑ Tagesschau: Ex-officer Humala leads in runoff election ( memento from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) June 6, 2011.
    8. ^ PPK confirms support for Fujimori, Toledo backs Humala . Peruviantimes.com. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
    9. ^ Castañeda ratifica apoyo a Keiko Fujimori . diario16.com.pe. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 6, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / diario16.pe
    10. ↑ El ex presidente Alejandro Toledo apoya a Humala para la segunda vuelta de las presidenciales . terra.com.pe. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
    11. ^ Rory Carroll: Mario Vargas Llosa under fire for Peru election endorsement , guardian.co.uk. April 28, 2011. 
    12. ↑ Vargas Llosa: "Sin alegría y con muchos temores yo voy a votar por Humala" . El Comercio.pe. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
    13. ↑ Elecciones Generales 2011 Segunda Elección Presidencial - RESUMEN NACIÓN . ONPE. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
    14. ^ Peru: Election on June 5th with voting computers for the first time . Infoamazonas. Retrieved June 15, 2011.