The Ipsos survey coincided with a previous poll by the Datum firm in verifying the disapproval of the president by 92 percent, with the former giving her a merely four percent, while the latter showed five percent.

Ipsos reports an 88-percent disapproval rating for Parliament and 77 percent for Interior Minister Juan José Santiváñez, who is in the eye of the storm due to two recent transport strikes, which are heralding fresh protests.

Political analyst Gonzalo Banda pointed out that the polls show a dire scenario that might lead to an ungovernable Peru, as the State, that is, the Government and Parliament, do not fulfill the essential obligation of protecting citizens’ lives.

With this, he referred to the mass extortions and murders by contract killings that had led to major social protests.

“The false sense that a giant political crisis could be contained without holding early elections has only deepened the sense of ungovernability,” he said about the president, whose rise to office by succession was rejected by some three months of protests, which were repressed, resulting in 50 civilian deaths.

Meanwhile, a sector of transporters, the Union of Multimodal Transport Guilds of Peru, announced a program of strikes against a bill that seeks to make more lenient the punishment of organized crime.

The union indicated that it is preparing a national strike for November 12 and preparatory mobilizations for a strike in Trujillo and other northern cities on October 22, and in Lima and other cities, on October 31.

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