I know there was a similar question asked recently on this sub but that question was directed toward Peruvians. This question is directed toward the rest of Latin America.
Recently, I have seen many foreigners taking interest into our elections and politics, and while I am glad that my country is getting covered by foreign press, there are some misconceptions, lies, and general bs that I have seen spreading around not only in reddit but also on different social medias like twitter or facebook. So, in this post I will explain in easy mode the peruvian elections, the system, the parties, the candidates, etc etc, so that you can be informed what happened in Peru.
So, how the frick does peruvian elect a president or parliament?
Peru elects it's president by a runoff system. The candidate that has more than 50% of the valid votes in the primary round wins the election, but that never happens. Instead, the two candidates with the more valid votes go agaisnt each other in a runoff, where the candidate with the most valid votes win the election.
Parliament elections act the same as the house of representatives in the USA, people pick the party they want, and the parties that has the most valid votes in a region get the seats with a system that it's pretty complicated that distributes the seats of a region using the votes from that region. If you didn't understand it, don't worry, we don't either. there is also the preferential vote, where one can pick one candidate in specific that they want to support among the parliamentary list of their region. There is also the andean parliamentary elections, but they don't do shit, so nobody cares.
Independent candidates can not run without a party that backs them up, so they need to approach a party for a temporary membership in the party to run on their list. these are called "invited candidates", and can be found both in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
Wait, is Peru a two party system?
No, there are multiple parties here, who also run on the presidential and parliamentary elections, or only run of the latter. We currently have 24 parties, many of which have fallen or risen depending on their fuckups in recent years. We have parties that self identify as theocratic, but has communalist and agrarian economics, pseudo nazbols that promote national expansion and a return of inca policies, fascists, liberals, libertarians, authoritarian neoliberals, centrists, demsocs, socdems, marxist leninists, etc etc.
So, what parties are the most relevant in this clusterfuck?
From all parties, 10 parties have managed to enter parliament, and as such, are considered importa
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Please disregard that they are both dead and probably not citizens of your country.
I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to this election, but it seems like it was a choice between 2 really bad options. Are Castillo and Fujimori equally bad, or is one worse than the other?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzijDrHWYAcQ4w5?format=jpg&name=900x900
The election is on June 6th, so there's still more than a month for things to go wrong.
