Peruvian general election, 2011
The elections in Peru in 2011 took place on 10 April 2011. The runoff election for the presidency was scheduled for June 5. It was decided on filling the following positions for the next five years:
- President
- Two Vice Presidents
- 130 members of Congress
- Five members of the Parliament of the Andean Community
Since none of the presidential candidates could obtain an absolute majority, a runoff between Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori was held on June 5, which was won by Humala. Humala was sworn in on 28 July 2011 as the 94th President of Peru. After a constitutional reform in 2009, the Peruvians voted for the first time 130 before 120 members of Congress.
Presidential candidates
The current president Alan García could not stand up because the Constitution does not allow two consecutive terms. The candidate of his party APRA, Mercedes Aráoz, has withdrawn her candidacy. This left 11 candidates. The most important were:
Surveys
First ballot
- Ollanta Humala
- Keiko Fujimori
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
- Alejandro Toledo
In the first round is confirmed the recent polls and Ollanta Humala got the most votes, followed by Keiko Fujimori. Between these two candidates was decided on June 5 in a runoff, as no one was able to achieve an absolute majority. Despite elective participation was only just under 85 %. In addition, more than ten percent of the ballots cast were invalid or blank. The valid votes were distributed as follows:
Congressional elections
Second round
The two remaining candidates took a very different political positions and the election campaign was marked by polarization. Humala named as its goals a fairer distribution of income from the natural resources of the country. Currently there is great poverty despite high revenues from mining under large parts of the population. He also called the retention of in recent years mostly high economic growth. He was viewed critically, especially by companies and parts of the middle class due to its anti-capitalism views as well as his emphasis still on the campaign trail in 2006 close to Hugo Chavez. In the 2011 campaign, however, Humala distanced public of this and relied in particular on the former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as a model. Keiko Fujimori was in favor of a liberalized economic policy and a tougher security policy. Criticism she learned, among other human rights organizations, who feared a continuation of her father's policies.
Before the second ballot, the two candidates excreted Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Luis Castañeda spoke out for the election of Fujimori. Alejandro Toledo supported in the runoff, however, Humala. The former Peruvian presidential candidate and writer Mario Vargas Llosa supported this as well, although his political stance actually differs significantly from the Humala. While there was a " choice between AIDS and terminal cancer ", but under Keiko Fujimori threatened a return to dictatorship and therefore Humala was the lesser evil.
On election day, Humala finally won a narrow majority of 51.45 percent of voters, while accounting for Fujimori 48.55 percent of the vote. Thus Humala was on 28 July the new president of Peru.
In the second ballot ( province Cañete ) were first used on a trial basis voting machines in the district Paracán.