Humala and Fujimori, the most rejected Candidates for the Peruvian Elections

Photograph taken on November 18 in which the former president of Peru Ollanta Humala was registered, during an interview with EFE, in Lima (Peru)

Lima, Jan 17 – Former president Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and the leader of the Fujimori party Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, are at the forefront among the candidates for the next presidential elections in Peru that generate the most rejection of the electorate, according to a poll published this Sunday.
Both candidates once again launched themselves into the presidential race while they continue under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged money laundering in their previous electoral campaigns, supposedly financed irregularly with millionaire undeclared donations from large companies.
According to the poll published by the pollster Ipsos in the newspaper El Comercio, where it was confirmed once again that indecision remains the dominant trend, 73% of Peruvians “definitely would not vote” for Humala, while in the case of Fujimori that aversion is 71%.
The rejection of the Fujimori Popular Force party was already reflected in the last parliamentary and regional elections, where the formation led by Keiko Fujimori saw its presence in Congress and in the regions and mayors’ offices greatly reduced after having exercised a very obstructionist opposition to the Government since 2016 .
Humala and Fujimori are followed in the “anti-vote” by businessman César Acuña, leader of the right-wing Alliance for Progress (APP), with 62%, and also the leader of the centrist Partido Morado, Julio Guzmán, and with 52% .
20% OF UNCERTAIN PERUVIANS
In voting intention, 20% have not yet decided who to vote for, while 14% plan to vote blank or cast a null vote.
The candidate with the most intention to vote continues to agglutinate, with 17%, the exporter from Alianza Lima and the Peruvian team George Forsyth, who until last year served as mayor of the Lima district of La Victoria.
In second place appears Keiko Fujimori with 8% of the intention to vote, thanks to the hard core of Fujimorism inherited from his father, former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
TIE BETWEEN GUZMÁN AND MENDOZA
In third place with 7%, both Guzmán and the leader of the Peruvian left Verónika Mendoza, candidate of the Juntos Por el Perú alliance, are tied.
Behind them is former minister Daniel Urresti, candidate of the populist Podemos Peru, with 6%, investigated for alleged irregularities in the process of collecting signatures for registration as a political organization.
Urresti, a retired general from the Peruvian Army, is one of the candidates who, according to the survey, generates the least rejection among the electorate (45%) despite the fact that he faces a trial as the alleged perpetrator (with control of the fact) of the murder in 1988 by the photojournalist Hugo Bustíos in the city of Huanta (Ayacucho).
LESS THAN THREE MONTHS TO VOTE
The survey was conducted from January 13 to 15 to 1,210 adults in urban and rural areas of the 25 regions of the country and has a margin of error of 2.8%.
In the general elections scheduled for Sunday, April 11, more than 25 million Peruvians are summoned to the polls to elect a president and his two vice-presidents, 130 congressmen and five Andean parliamentarians for the period 2021-2026.