Peru poll: 61% believe President Castillo lacks leadership and 72% feel country is “disunited”

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Sixty-one percent of Peruvians believe that president Pedro Castillo lacks leadership, while 72% of the population considers that the country is “disunited,” according to the latest Ipsos opinion poll.

The survey data also shows that 83% of Peruvians believe that Peru Libre’s Secretary General Vladimir Cerron should step down from office, while 44% say that Cerron has too much influence in the government.

Capital Lima stands out as the area with the highest level of distrust of both Castillo and Cerron, with 73% saying that the former has no leadership capacity and 90% rejecting the latter, according to the poll conducted by Ipsos.

In addition, 33% of Peruvians are concerned about the president’s insistence on changing the constitution, as it generates instability, while 30% consider that Castillo is driving private investment away from the country. The presence of Shining Path militants or sympathizers in Castillo’s circle is also a matter of concern among citizens – 28%.

This same survey shows that 72% of citizens consider Peru to be a “disunited” country, compared to 23% who consider it united, with the most controversial issues being political and ideological differences (59%), social differences (39%), racial differences (34%) and different interpretations of terrorism (32%).

In contrast, Peruvians feel that the issues that most unite the nation are soccer (48%), gastronomy (38%), freedom and democracy (28%) and cultural diversity (24%).