After the presidential elections of this Sunday, April 11 and facing the second round, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies organized a debate, yesterday at noon, via social networks, with the participation of Peruvian politicians and academics, in which analyzed the results.
Alberto Vergara placeholder image, a political analyst and professor at the Universidad del Pacífico, was starkly punctual to explain what happened in this election.
“I have two grumpy intuitions. The first, how to read this electoral result, and the second, how to behave between now and the second round. The first refers to how to understand this changing country, where the same thing always happens, because a lot has already been said about what happened in this election that sounds like déjà vu, the run over by an unknown candidate, the segregated results, the spirit with the one that we are going to face this second round. It is a combination of the new and the old. Something like ′ new skin for the old ceremony ′ ”, explained Vergara.
Fracture and bankruptcy
Next, excerpts from the intervention of the political analyst Alberto Vergara in which he refers to the fragmentation, pulverization, as well as mistrust, of political representation, in clear allusion to what was obtained by Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, who together neither achieve nor the third part of the valid votes of the country.
“This is something important and new, at least in the dimensions that it has acquired. Keiko Fujimori reaches the second round this time without even one in ten Peruvians having voted for her. In fact, all third parties from any election from 2000 onwards would have passed first in this election. “
“At the presidential level, this is new, although in the regions, for a decade, it is the status quo, at least.”
“Electoral fragmentation is the by-product of a political, social and moral bankruptcy in the country. That is to say, the total distrust of politicians. The corruption seen in recent years and in the midst of the worst pandemic, having seen politicians tearing off the presidential sash has been very strong for everyone and that I think has generated that political and moral bankruptcy, that mistrust ”.
“The discouragement in the country has manifested itself, you no longer know for whom (to vote or trust) and you end up having this situation in which everyone (the candidates) gets so little. Verónika Mendoza obtained five years ago three million (votes), more or less, and now, with the jousts, it exceeds one million. Keiko Fujimori, more than six million, and now, not two. We are facing a bankruptcy of the possibility of trust, and since I cannot trust, fragmented tribes of peers emerge, in which each candidate ends up clinging to something, perceives the threat of the others. There is a conglomeration of monotheistic tribes terrorized by each other ”, explains Vergara.
“You have to get commitments” from the candidates
“What should not be said to any of these candidates (Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori for the second round) is ‘save me, you already have my vote’, nor ‘for you I do not vote or die.’ Both attitudes eliminate the possibility of moderating them, that we start commitments because both are very dangerous […] What we must do is sell our vote dearly, “explained political scientist Alberto Vergara.
Also present at the event organized by Harvard University were former ministers María Antonieta Alva and Salvador del Solar. Also former congresswoman Marisa Glave, who criticized macroeconomic indicators and their results in the face of the country’s health collapse in the face of the pandemic. “The economic miracle was a mirage,” he stressed.
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