Peruvian President’s approval rating drops to three percent

Lima, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) Peruvian President Dina Boluarte today registered a new record of citizen disapproval, obtaining only three percent approval in a private survey.

November 18, 2024
15:08

The survey by the Datum company, at a national level, assigns the president a drop of two points compared to last October and an increase in disapproval also of two points, to 94 percent.

“This is something that has never happened in history,” said political analyst Nicolás Lúcar, commenting on the survey published after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) summit in which expectations of improvement in the Government were estimated.

“We are back to reality after the APEC summit, only three percent approve of the management of President Dina Boluarte,” said journalist Jesús Verd, while the former neoliberal Minister of Development and Social Inclusion Fiorella Molinelli noted that the survey confirms that “there is no APEC summit or anything that can save it.”

For analyst Enrique Castillo, the Datum survey shows that “the government is extremely distant from what the population wants, needs and thinks.”

“If the president was in intermediate care, she has already entered intensive care in serious condition,” he added, adding that unpopularity could lead to Boluarte’s political isolation, since the proximity of a pre-election year will determine that no one approaches the government.

Journalist Pedro Tenorio asserted that the Government “has lost its compass, but also political weight, in the debate and, in addition, it is seen to be very compromised in its image and in its existence,” to which is added that it is very tied to the discredited Parliament.

The director of Datum, Urpi Torrado, mentioned among the factors for the fall in Boluarte’s approval rating, the suspension of attendance at classes and work centers, among other restrictions related to the APEC summit.

Regarding the problem of citizen insecurity, the survey asked about the reliability of institutions linked to the issue, which showed 80 percent distrust in prosecutors, 77 percent in judges and 63 percent in the National Police, and only the Armed Forces have the majority trust, with 57 percent, compared to 37 percent disapproval.

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