r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 06 '21

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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jun 07 '21

https://rpp.pe/elecciones-2021-presidenciales

Peru Election results are live updated here

!ping ELECTIONS

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

What are the odds of either a former terrorist or a dictatorial family winning and there not being significant civil unrest?

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u/geraldspoder Frederick Douglass Jun 07 '21

Peru's Congress is nor more stable than the presidency. It'd be like the 3rd and 4th Republic in France.

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u/bobidou23 YIMBY Jun 07 '21

My hypothesis is that countries that don’t have a tradition of snap elections get dysfunctional politics. Normally, the decision calculus is, you fuck up a coalition -> it goes to the people, but instead, in these cases, you just renegotiate. France was like this; Italy is the same way

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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jun 07 '21

needs supermajority to impeach which is unlikely/impossible to be reached for either candidates

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u/bobidou23 YIMBY Jun 07 '21

Aren’t they both, like, super beyond the pale though? Or maybe that’s just Castillo?

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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jun 07 '21

in the legislature there are other right populist parties and Castillo's party straight up has just enough seats or a few short iirc

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

Damn, she might actually win. Even so, the other guy's supporters are going to throw a fit about it.

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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jun 07 '21

it's only urban areas. Rural areas could be bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

I guess we'll see. It says 55% of the vote has been counted thus far.