Toledo has 11 % support for President of Peru in the 2011 ballot



Lima mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio is second with 18.4 per cent, followed by former president Alejandro Toledo with 11.9 per cent, nationalist leader Ollanta Humala with 11.8 per cent, and former conservative presidential candidate Lourdes Flores Nano with 10.2 per cent. Alejandro Toledo grew up in Chimbote and was befriended by Peace Corps Volunteers who helped him study in the United States. Later he was a language instructor in Brockport's Peace Corps/College Degree Program. Elected President of Peru in 2000, Toledo invited the Peace Corps to return to Peru after a 27 year absence. He is presently a visiting Fellow at Stanford University.

Toledo has 11 % support for President of Peru in the 2011 ballot

Peruvians Not Keen on Presidential Candidates

August 15, 2009

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - People in Peru are not showing much enthusiasm for a list of potential presidential candidates, according to a poll by CPI. 21.1 per cent of respondents would vote for the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, lawmaker Keiko Sofía Fujimori, in the 2011 ballot.

Lima mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio is second with 18.4 per cent, followed by former president Alejandro Toledo with 11.9 per cent, nationalist leader Ollanta Humala with 11.8 per cent, and former conservative presidential candidate Lourdes Flores Nano with 10.2 per cent.

Support is lower for former prime ministers Yehude Simón, Jorge del Castillo and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, as well as Christian leader and pastor Humberto Lay, and former commander general of the armed forces Edwin Donayre.

In June 2006, Alan García-a member of the American Revolutionary People's Alliance (APRA)-won Peru's presidential election in a run-off against Humala, a nationalist. In July, García officially took over as president. He had previously served as Peru's head of state from 1985 to 1990, when he oversaw a major economic crisis.

On Aug. 4, Flores Nano reiterated her wish to create an alliance encompassing her own Popular Christian Party (PPC) and two other centrist parties-Possible Peru (PP) and National Solidarity (SN)-ahead of the next presidential election, saying, "Hopefully we will have the maturity to reach a path of understanding. I think the alliance should not be improvised."

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