Peruvian Elections and Politics: Boluarte era, political crisis continues

[Bilardista]

Argentina 46.5% in. 22k votes (20.5k valid)

Fujimori: 57.3%
Castillo: 42.7%

Argentina and Uruguay best American countries, the lowest % of the Fujimori vote is there.

Uruguay - 55% Fujimori
Argentina - 57%
Brazil - 59%
Bolivia - 65%
Ecuador - 66%
Colombia - 72%
Mexico - 73%
Paraguay - 74%
Canada - 76%

Considering the only country in the world that Castillo won was NORWAY, I think, that’s pretty good result for the Southern Cone. Hopefully Chile follows suit.

I'm surprised Castillo didn't won here. Of course i know nothing of the politics of peruvian emigrants, but i would have thought that, since we receive mainly poor inmigrants (unlike the US or europe), Castillo was favoured. I guess maybe we get lots of limeños, or perhaps many of the people who voted here were older inmigrants who came in the 80-90's and remember Sendero Luminoso? I probably i just looked at the vote of the bolivian community last year and wrongly assumed it would be similar in this case.

[Bilardista]

Castillo sure is outdoing himself everyday. Sad, but also very entertaining.

[Bilardista]

The reason why the Andean Left is so loopy is that it is backed by traditional Indigenous clan heads and remnants of the Incan aristocracy. This is great for getting elected, as they have a reliable support base whose also very rich and very well connected to the lower rungs in rural areas, however their class position and views are incredibly backwards and not in sync to what the urban working class—or even peasantry—want or need.

There is a reason why Peru Libre was supportive of the Second Kim and North Korea in general, and that is because the latter wholly capitulated to the rural landowners and upper peasantry over the working class doing manual labor or urban intelligentsia. This also explains why Peru Libre have the infighting that they have.

Oddly enough, MAS has somehow balanced these interests much better in having a monopoly of sorts over these groups, but sections of the lower stratum of urban and rural working class they have no control over are represented by radicals in the main trade union rallying around the Quispe family and they are seemingly slipping support over middle class Indians. They, unlike PL, do very poorly in getting the non-Quechuan indigenous vote.

Lol indeed