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Elecciones en el Peru alarman a los inversionistas
Las acciones caen despues que un populista y la hija de un ex-autocrata pasan a la segunda vuelta
Ni bien se anuncio que el izquierdista Humala y la centro-drecha Keiko Fujimori pasaban a la segunda vuelta la bolsa Peruana cayeron mas del 3%.
Los resultados han puesto una nube de incertidumbre sobre la que ha sido una de las mejores economias del mundo y una de las mas tranquilas. Peru ha conseguido 12 anios de crecimiento continuado gracias a las politicas prudentes del libre mercado y el surgimiento de los precios de los metales.
No van a parar a la economia pero si causa quelos inversionistas se hagan muchas preguntas.
Humala es el riesgo mas grande, el quiere aumentar el protagonismo del gobierno en la economia y quiere cambiar el modelo economico.
Humala dice que los extranjeron y las corporaciones han monopolizado los recursos naturales del Peru.
Humala quiere regresar a la constitucion de 1979, la cual le da al gobierno el poder sobre los recursos naturales. Se opone tambien a la exportacion del gas natural de Camisea. Peru LNG se ha negado a hacer declaraciones al respecto hasta el momento.
Humala quiere escribir una nueva constitucion.
Esto seria muy peligroso y crearia un clima de inestabilidad por mucho tiempo, dijo Humberto Speziano de Confiep.
Rospigliosi dijo que Humala usara las enormes reservas del Peru para repartir todo lo que se le ocurra, es una inmensa cantidad de dinero va a subsidiar el gas natural, la gasoina, el pan y otros productos.
Luego usaria sus popularidad para eliminar los limites constitucionales para quedarse en el poder.
Humala ha dicho que no piensa quedarse mas de 5 anios en el gobierno.
La economia Peruana esta creciendo, las inversiones en mineria alcanzaran $5.6 billones en el 2011, 50% mas que en 2010, de acuerdo a Apoyo. La bolsa ubio 1005 en el 2009 y 65% el anio pasado, y ha caido 6% en el primer trimestre debido a las elecciones.
Ms. Fujimori goza del apoyo de las politicas de libres mercados, pero enfrenta dudas en la esfera politica. Su padre goberno el Peru de 1990 al 2000 y tuvo mucho exito con la inflacion y el terrorismo en los primeros anios de su presidencia. Pero alberto Fujimori eventualmente creo un servicio de inteligencia muy grande, el cual fomento la corrupcion mientras restringia las libertades basicas. El esta sirviendo 25 anios de prision por su papel en las masacres militares.
Ms. Fujimori ha defendido a su padre como el mejor presidente de la historia del Peru, diciendo que fueron sus politicas las que ha logrado el actual exito de la economia.
PPK quien termino tercero dijo que el recuerdo de Fujimori lo hara tener mucho cuidado en darle el apoyo a Ms. Fujimori. Tiene que haber un absoluto divorcio con la corrupcion del pasado, dijo PPK.
Algunos analsitas dicen que la preferencia del electorado es un llamado de atencion a los negocios y puede hacer mas concientes a los ejecutivos para que los pobres gozen de la riqueza del pais.
Mientras las cosas van muy bien para los negocios, las cosas no van tan bien para algunos del electorado, dijo Miguel Ferre, decano dela universidad de Piura. Esa es la leccion mas importante de esta eleccion, dijo el decano.
Peru Election Alarms Investors
Stocks Fall After Populist and Daughter of Ex-Autocrat Reach Presidential Runoff
By MATT MOFFETT And ROBERT KOZAK
LIMA, Peru—No sooner were the leftist Ollanta Humala and center-right Keiko Fujimori confirmed Monday as rivals in the June presidential runoff election than stocks in the once booming local exchange fell into a tailspin, declining more than 3%.
The outcome of Sunday´s first-round presidential election has raised a cloud of uncertainty over what has quietly been one of the world´s top performing economies. Peru has enjoyed 12 consecutive years of growth thanks to prudent market-oriented policies and surging commodity prices.
Peru's presidential candidates Ollanta Humala (L) and Keiko Fujimori celebrate the first round election results during late rallies in Lima. The candidates move on to a June runoff vote.
.But the prospect of a government by Mr. Humala, a populist former army officer, or Ms. Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former president who was known for corruption and an iron-fisted style, has given the business community pause.
"It's not going to stop the economy, but it will cause investors to raise questions," said Julio Carrion, a political scientist at the University of Delaware.
Mr. Humala is clearly the biggest worry in that regard. The 48-year-old former military officer has tried to moderate his image since narrowly losing the 2006 election. But Mr. Humala hasn't done much to change his governing plan, "which in the main part is aimed at increasing the role of the state in the economy," said Roberto Flores, an economist with brokerage Inteligo SAB. "So there would be risks of important changes to the model."
Mr. Humala, campaigning under the slogan "Honesty that Makes a Difference," asserts that big business and foreigners have monopolized Peru´s natural resources at the expense of average citizens.
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of a jailed former Peruvian president, celebrates her second-place finish on Sunday.
.Mr. Humala has said he might favor a return to Peru's 1979 constitution, which gives the state ownership over natural resources. He also said he opposed exporting natural gas extracted from massive blocs 88 and 56 of Peru's Camisea natural-gas project. U.S.-led consortium Peru LNG is producing liquefied natural gas for export from the Camisea blocs. Peru LNG has so far declined to comment.
Mr. Humala also has broached calling together a new constituent assembly to write a new constitution. The current one, Mr. Humala says, is tainted because it was rammed through by Ms. Fujimori's father after he suspended many basic rights with the backing of the military.
"This would be very dangerous and create a climate of instability for a long time," said Humberto Speziani, head of Peru's largest business group, Confiep.
Fernando Rospigliosi, a former interior minister, wrote in a newspaper column that he expected Mr. Humala to try to apply a standard populist playbook used by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez by leveraging huge currency reserves, $47 billion in Peru's case. "With that immense quantity of money...he will give away anything that occurs to him, subsidize natural gas, gasoline, bread and other products," Mr. Rospigliosi wrote.
He added that Mr. Humala would then use the subsequent boost in political popularity to eliminate constitutional limits on presidents serving back to back terms, thus entrenching himself in power.
Mr. Humala says he doesn't intend to serve a day beyond the president´s five year term.
Peru's economy has been humming. Investment in the mining industry is set to reach a record $5.6 billion in 2011, 50% higher than 2010, according the Apoyo consultancy. The General Index on the Lima Stock Exchange rose 100% in 2009 and an additional 65% last year before falling 6% in 2011's first quarter, partly due to pre-election jitters.
Ms. Fujimori supports maintaining Peru's current market-friendly policies, but faces enormous doubts in the political sphere. Her father governed Peru from 1990 to 2000 and enjoyed success in quashing inflation and cracking down on leftist guerrillas in the early years of his presidency. But Alberto Fujimori eventually created a vast intelligence apparatus, which fomented corruption while restraining basic liberties. He is serving a 25-year prison sentence for his role in two military massacres.
Ms. Fujimori has defended her father as the greatest president in Peru's history, saying his policies laid the groundwork for the current economic success.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former Wall Street investment banker who finished third in the first round, said the memory of Ms. Fujimori's father's government would make him careful about throwing his support behind Ms. Fujimori in the runoff. There would have to be an "absolute break with the corruption of the past," Mr. Kuczynski said.
Some analysts said that voters' preference for two such controversial candidates could serve as a wake-up call to business, and might make executives more conscious of ensuring more of Peru's newfound wealth reaches the poor.
"While things are going well for business, things clearly aren't going well for some voters," said Miguel Ferre, dean of the business school at Piura University here. "That's an important lesson of this election."