Peru’s first female president is pushing to cement her hold on power, saying she expects to complete the term of her ousted predecessor and buck the trend of presidential failures blighting the Andean nation.
“I know that there are voices that are calling for early elections. That is democracy,” Boluarte said. But she added that there is a need for stability in Peru, a strongly polarized country that has had six presidents in the last six years.
Analysts, however, predicted a tough road for the new president, a 60-year-old lawyer and political neophyte. But Patricia Zárate, head of the institute’s opinion studies area, said Thursday that Boluarte might be able to hold on if members of Congress don’t want to risk early elections Former President Ollanta Humala, who governed in 2011-2016, was skeptical, nothing the new leader was not involved in politics or government before becoming vice president and has no base in Congress.
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