Omar Castro, CPI: One factor behind Pedro Castillo’s slight rise in popularity has to do with the opposition.

CPI CEO, Omar Castro, explained the balance sheet of the latest poll, which shows a slight increase in President Pedro Castillo’s approval and a fall in his disapproval. In an interview with RPP Noticias, he said that today the opposition is the president’s “great ally” and that the arrest of his daughter-in-law, Yenifer Paredes, could contribute to the “victimization” of the president.

According to the latest CPI survey, the disapproval rate fell from 75% to 71.1% between June and August. On the other hand, his approval has risen from 19.5% to 22.6% in the same period he is recovering from the fall he suffered in June. Since January of this year, the President Peter’s castle maintains a “hard” approval of about 20%, despite questions from his management.

Castro claimed that the president’s approval rose the most in metropolitan Lima, where it rose from 7.4% (June) to 14.5% (August). “This is new,” he said.

The general manager claimed that the president Peter’s castle “He made many promises” in his State of the Union address that received popular support, such as the offer to form security corps, as well as free admission to universities. “He got a lot of public approval,” he said.

Opposition and victimization

Another factor in favor of the president is the role of the opposition, he said. Castro. “There is also the fact that he has a great ally, which is the opposition, the terrible behavior of the opposition in its desire to oppose the executive. All this leads to more and more disapproval, and that people see Congress as a rival to the executive branch, and this leads to the fact that the president can go up, ”he said.

Castro indicated that the campaign victimization the President pays in his favor. He stated that while the impact of the arrest of the president’s sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes, has not been measured, they know from previous questions that people see the judiciary as “very slow”.

“Then the fact that the president’s daughter-in-law, due to news that appeared in less than two months, is arrested, wanted in the palace, can help victimization on the part of the president, and that people understand that in addition to the actions that the prosecutor’s office can take, there too political game,” he explained.

“The president can use this situation to get victimization help him with the estimated figures,” he added.

In addition, he believed that in the face of an unruly executive branch that has a president with six tax investigations and a Congress with great disapproval, there was no way out. “It keeps us in complete uncertainty,” he said.

“In this case, if people leave, I think the way out is tax investigations. This could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and encourages people to ask “everyone to leave,” he said.

Elections in Metropolitan Lima

Candidates Daniel Urresti and Rafael López Allaga lead the way in intent to vote for Lima City Hall with 22.8% and 21.5% respectively, according to a recent CPI poll presented exclusively at RPP Noticias.

Castro said the “no” and “inaccurate” options add up to 37%, but that figure is expected to drop to 10% on Election Day. “White or invalid vote ends up being 10%. If we take these 37% to 10%, then 25% of the population has not yet decided,” he said.

“The campaign is not heating up because people are in limbo with the executive branch and Congress. You could say there are two candidates at the top,” he said, referring to Urresti and Lopez Allaga.

“I repeat that there is still a large sector that is going to make a decision, but has not yet done so,” he said.

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