Fernando Tuesta: It’s not news that traditional political parties have been defeated again in elections

The 2022 regional and municipal elections have once again demonstrated the defeat of traditional political parties and the significant reception that regional movements in different parts of the country. For former head of the National Bureau of Electoral Processes (ONPE) Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla refusal political groupings is not new, as it has been observed for three decades.

In an interview with News Extension from PTRthe specialist noted that this rejection is likely due to the role that political groups play when they come to power, whether in positions in Congress, districts, municipalities, regions, etc.

“The failure of national parties is related to performance, but this is not new; We have been in the same situation for three decades,” he said.

Although regional movements imposed on the traditional parties, Fried Soldeville believed that such a description of these groups is a mistake. According to him, the correct name would be departmental movements.

” regional movements First, they are not regional. Movements are only departmental, no traffic really the regional south of the Andes, the Peruvian east, the north or the center of Peru,” he said.

In this sense former head of ONPE assured that in most cases, regional movements act as “electoral instruments” of the current electoral struggle, while their leaders do not have a clear intention to form solid membership.

“Problems that national parties they are reproduced even more at the level of these “regional” spaces. These are purely personal organizations, they have no organization, and they recruit candidates who are asked to wear a T-shirt, but four years pass, they eventually stop, even worse, they have registration, ”he asked.

“A national reconfiguration of the political map is underway”

Meanwhile, former congressman Richard Maple He believed that the poor reception of political groups at the national level represented a popular message of dissatisfaction with the traditional political class, Congress, and the executive branch.

AT RPP Newsthe former legislator highlighted the poor performance of two groups that contested a presidential runoff just a year ago: Peru Libre and Fuerza Popular.

“They were big losers. The party that brought Pedro Castillo into government must see that the overwhelming result it got in the second round of 2021 no longer has a foothold,” he said.

Arce cited two cases as examples illustrating the low support of the Pencil Party in this election. “In Lima, the case of Peru Libre comes to the point of irony, because [a ellos, en Lima] They are defeated by Avanza País, who had practically no candidates. And in their stronghold of Junin they also lost,” he said.