After a year in power, the former schoolteacher has an approval rating of just 20%
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskChaos has become the norm under Mr Castillo. His administration is marked out by constant turnover; he has appointed a new minister every week on average. He has survived two impeachment attempts, and will almost certainly face another. His approval rating is 20%.
When Mr Castillo hires qualified people, they do not last long. His sixth interior minister said he had been asked to sign an undated resignation letter before he was sworn in, and was then abruptly fired for setting up an elite police squad to help find three allies of Mr Castillo who had fled arrest . On July 23rd one of the three fugitives, a former aide whom prosecutors accuse of stashing $20,000 in a presidential-palace bathroom, turned himself in after three months on the run.
Mr Castillo’s election reflected the public’s discontent. Last year just 21% of Peruvians were satisfied with their democracy, according to a poll by the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Peru also had the highest tolerance for a military coup in Latin America. Mr Castillo, a former union leader, schoolteacher and farmer, was an outsider who promised to upend the status quo. He had no previous experience of national politics.
Despite his many missteps, Mr Castillo has been able to cling to power because the opposition is fractured. Congress is rife with infighting. It is even less popular than the president. At this point, Mr Castillo’s survival “rests on inertia and the lack of a better alternative”, says Julio Carrión, a political scientist at the University of Delaware.
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