President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, registers 60% disapproval

The disapproval of the Peruvian president, the leftist Pedro Castillo, stands at 60% after almost six months into his government, according to a survey published this Sunday.

“Disapproval is the highest recorded since he took office,” the firm said on its Twitter account. Ipsos, responsible for this survey on the public management of the president, who took office on July 28 for a period of five years.

In December, Castillo had closed with 58% disapproval, after 57% registered in November and 48% in October, according to the survey published by the newspaper Trade.

The percentage of approval is 33%, while 7% of those questioned avoided or did not want to evaluate the presidential work, it was indicated.

Castillo, 52 years old, won the last elections last June at the head of a small Marxist-Leninist party with 50.12% of the vote, in a close ballot against the right-wing Keiko Fujimori.

The rejection of Castillo, a rural union teacher, is higher in Lima (79%) than in the rest of the country (49%). The Peruvian capital is home to a third of the electorate and the Peruvian elites.

The survey, with a margin of error of +/- 2,824, consulted 1,209 elderly people between January 13 and 14 in various cities in Peru.

Castillo, who lacks experience in public management, faces criticism from the press for having put together a supposedly radical government and for maintaining uncertainty about his economic policy.

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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx

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