Esteemed economist Hernando de Soto has endorsed presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori in Peru’s 2016 elections. Fujimori presented de Soto as a member of her technical team at a campaign rally Full Article »
Police raided the Lima office of Mossack Fonseca on Monday in it tax-evasion investigations into Peruvian citizens and companies named in the Panama Papers. Police armed in riot gear accompanied Full Article »
The disqualifications of two presidential candidates is not a signal of a breakdown in Peru’s democracy. The Organization of American States (OAS) secretary general recently characterized Peru’s 2016 elections as Full Article »
Peru’s smaller political parties continue to drop out of 2016 elections to avoid losing their legal registration for not garnering the minimum elections threshold. A new law establishing a tougher Full Article »
Peru’s electoral authority has disqualified presidential candidate Cesar Acuña from the ballot in 2016 elections for vote buying. Peru’s JEE special elections tribunal ruled the former Trujillo mayor and founder Full Article »
Cesar Acuña’s vice presidential candidate, Anel Townsend, has withdrawn her candidacy for Congress in the latest sign of mass desertions from the former Trujillo mayor’s campaign. The former congresswoman and Full Article »
High-profile political consultant Luis Favre has resigned from Cesar Acuña’s presidential campaign in 2016 elections. One of Latin America’s most prominent political consultants has abandoned Acuña in the latest sign of Full Article »
Humberto Lay, one of presidential candidate Cesar Acuña’s running mates, has withdrawn from the Alliance for Progress ticket. The socially conservative, 77-year-old congressman cited “personal reasons” for his resignation from Full Article »
Peru’s electoral board has initiated proceedings to disqualify presidential candidate Cesar Acuña from 2016 elections for vote buying. The JEE special elections tribunal opened an exclusion procedure which says that Full Article »
A recent poll shows Peru’s presidential candidate Julio Guzman would mount the greatest challenge to frontrunner Keiko Fujimori in a runoff vote. The Ipsos poll published in El Comercio on Full Article »
