por admin » Dom Abr 10, 2011 10:35 pm
Un izquierdista y la hija de un ex-presidente lideran el Voto Peruano
Ollanta Humala un ex-militar izquierdista y Keiko Fujimori, hija de un ex-presidente quien esta preso, pasan a la segunda vuelta dejando a los inversionistas pensando en sus opciones, despues que los dos emergieron como ganadores en la primera vuelta electoral el Domingo.
Mr. Humala, quien ha asustado a los executivos de negocios al criticar los acuerdos de libre comercio que ha firmado el Peru, ha ofrecido un alza de salarios y pensiones, obtuvo un 31.6% de los votos de acuerdo a un conteo rapido de la agencia Apoyo. En segundo lugar con 23% de los votos, Mrs. Fujimori, quien heredo la maquinaria politica de su padre Alberto Fujimori, de acuerdo a Ipsos Apoyo. En tercer lugar PPK con 19.1%. La segunda vuelta entre los dos ganadores se realizara el 5 de Junio.
El novelista ganandor del Nobel Prize, conservador, dijo previamente que esa alternativa era como votar entre el Sida y el cancer terminal. El cientifico politico Julio Carrion llamo a los resultados: la peor alternativa. Efectivamente, Humala podria dar marcha atras a las politicas orientadas al libre mercado que han ayudado a la economia del Peru a ser una de las que mas crecen en el mundo. En los ultimos 6 anios, la economia Peruana se ha expandido a un promedio del 7% anual.
Mientras tanto, los criticos de Mrs. Fujimori temen que su gobierno pueda revivir la corrupcion y el autoritarismo del gobierno de su padre. Mr. Carrion dice que Mrs. Fujimori podria tener la ventaja en la segunda vuelta, porque los otros partidos politicos porian preferir hacer acuerdos con Mrs. Fujimori que con Humala. El dice que los dos candidatos parecen asegurar a los mercados financieros anunciando quienes serian primer ministros y otros en la cartera.
Mr. Humala, quien perdio en la segunda vuelta en el 2006, tuvo la asesoria de los asesores politicos de Brasil, quien trataron de moderar su mensaje, en el estilo del ex-presidente Brasilero Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva. Sin embargo Mr. Humala dice que favorece las politicas de aumentar beneficios para los trabajadores Peruanos, ofrece aumentar los impuestos a las mineras, quienes general la riqueza del Peri. El tambien propone reformar la constitucion. Eso preocupa a algunos Peruanos y analistas quienes notan como Hugo Chavez cambio la constitucion de Venezuela para quedarse en el poder desde su primera eleccion en 1999.
Ms. Fujimori ha indicado que ella continuara con las politicadas de libres mercados que el Peru ha seguido en lso ultimos anios y que su padre introdujo en los 90s. Pero ella tiene algunos problemas, dicen los analistas. Ms. Fujimori lanzo su carrera politica a la sombra de su padre, decano de la universidad Agraria, quien sobresalio de la noche a la maniana para ganar la presidencia en 1990. Ms. Fujimori emerge en la vida publica en 1994 cuando a la edad de 19 anios se convirtio en la primera dama despues que Mr. Fujimori se divorcio y segun algunos encerro a su esposa en el palacio presidencial. Mr. Fujimori y su hija gozaron de popularidad cuando su gobierno domino la inflacion de cuatro digitos y derroto a los terroristas Maoistas.
Pero en el 2000, la salida de los videos del jefe de inteligencia de Fujimori, Vladimiro Montesinos, pagando coimas a miembros del congreso, y ejecutivos de medios de comunicacion forzaron a Fujimori a viajar al Japon. El renuncio a la presidencia via fax. Mr Fujimori fue arrestado en Chile y extraditado al Peru. En el 2009, Mr. Fujimori fue sentenciado a 25 anios de prision por su papel en dos masacres militares durante el conflicto con las guerrillas en los 90s.
Ms. Fujimori, quien tiene un titulo en administracion de empresas en Boston University, saco ventaja de la fuerza politica entre los barrios pobres, donde Fujimori fue exitoso en disminuir la inflacion y combatio a los terroristas, y donde aun es muy recordado. Sus operadores ofrecieron t-shirts a cambio de poder pintar la palabra Keiko en rojo en sus casas. Cientos tornaron sus casas en paneles publicitarios para la campania presidencial de Keiko Fujimori.
Mr. Carrion dijo que los resultados de la eleccion reflejan la debilida del sistema de partidos del Peru, que deja el apoyo fragmentado. En cuarto lugar, de acuerdo a Ipsos Apoyo, el ex presidente Alejandro Toledo con 15.7% seguido por el ex alcalde Limenio Luis Castaneda con 10%
Leftist, Ex-President's Daughter Lead Peruvian Vote
By MATT MOFFETT
LIMA, Peru—Ollanta Humala, a left-leaning former military officer, and Keiko Fujimori, daughter of an imprisoned ex-president, appeared headed for a runoff election that will leave many investors in this booming economy ruing the options, after the two emerged as the top vote-getters in the first round presidential balloting Sunday.
Mr. Humala, who has rattled business executives by criticizing recently signed Peruvian trade treaties and promising higher salaries and pensions, obtained 31.6% of the vote, according to a quick count by Ipsos Apoyo agency. In second place with 23% was Ms. Fujimori, who inherited the political machine of her jailed father Alberto Fujimori, according to Ipsos Apoyo. In third place was Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former investment banker and prime minister, with 19.1% of the vote. The runoff between the two top vote-getters is set for June 5.
Nobel Prize winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, a conservative, had previously dubbed a hypothetical runoff between the Mr. Humala, 48 years old, and Ms. Fujimori, 35 years old, as comparable to "choosing between AIDS and terminal cancer." University of Delaware political scientist Julio Carrion called it "the worst possible outcome." Indeed, financial markets fret that Mr. Humala might reverse the market-oriented policies that have helped turn Peru into one of the world's fastest growing economies. Over the past six years, the Peruvian economy has expanded at an average annual rate of 7%.
Meanwhile Ms. Fujimori's critics worry that her government could revive the corruption and authoritarianism that ran rampant in the government of her father. Mr. Carrion said that Ms. Fujimori might have an edge heading into the runoff, because other political factions might be more willing to cut deals with her than they would with Mr. Humala. He said both candidates seemed likely to try to assuage voters and financial markets by indicating who would hold the prime ministry and other key positions in their governments.
Mr. Humala, who narrowly lost the presidency in 2006 running with a full-throated populist message, retained Brazilian political advisers who tried to cast him in a more moderate light, in the style of that country's former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Still, Mr. Humala says he favors politically popular benefit increases to Peruvian workers and higher taxes on the mining companies, which generate much of Peru's wealth. He also supports rewriting Peru's constitution. That worries some Peruvian analysts who noted how Hugo Chávez redrafted the Venezuelan constitution to help entrench himself in power since he was first elected in 1999.
Ms. Fujimori has indicated she would continue the market-oriented policies that Peru has followed in recent years and that her father introduced in the 1990s. But she has other baggage, analysts say. Ms. Fujimori's political career was launched in the shadow of her father, an agronomy school dean, who came out of nowhere to win the presidency in 1990. Ms. Fujimori emerged in the public eye in 1994 at the age of 19 when she became Peru's first lady after Mr. Fujimori went through a messy divorce that saw him lock his wife out of the presidential palace. Mr. Fujimori and his daughter basked in the glow of popularity as the government tamed four-digit inflation and broke the back of a Maoist guerrilla insurgency.
But then in 2000, the release of videos of Mr. Fujimori's intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, paying bribes to congressmen and news executives prompted Mr. Fujimori to flee to Japan. He resigned the presidency by fax. Mr. Fujimori was subsequently arrested while visiting Chile and extradited to Peru. In 2009, Mr. Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his involvement in two military massacres during a conflict with guerrillas in the 1990s.
Ms. Fujimori, who has a degree in business administration from Boston University, took advantage of a strong political network in Peruvian slums, where Mr. Fujimori's success in taming inflation and terrorists are still fondly remembered. Her operators offered slum residents t-shirts in return for being allowed to paint the word "Keiko" in red on their houses. Hundreds turned their houses into billboards for the Fujimori campaign.
Mr. Carrion said the results of the election reflect Peru's weak party system, which leaves support splintered among many factions. In fourth place, according to Ipsos Apoyo, was ex-president Alejandro Toledo with 15.7%, followed by ex Lima mayor Luis Castaneda with 10%.
—Robert Kozak contributed to this article.