The world’s most unpopular president?

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250530-the-world-s-most-unpopular-president-peru-s-leader-clings-to-power

Posted by BendicantMias

4 comments

  1. >With an ***approval rating of just two percent***, Peru’s President Dina Boluarte may be the world’s most unpopular leader, according to pollsters.

    >”We might be talking about a world record of sustained presidential disapproval,” Ipsos Peru president Alfredo Torres told AFP.

    Note that, despite such a low approval rating, she isn’t in power just cos she’s an autocrat – rather she’s a conduit to collective autocracy. What does that mean? Parliament. They keep her in power cos she keeps helping them to further their own interests with impunity.

    >”It is a great business to have a fragile president whom they (lawmakers) use” to entrench their own power and pass laws beneficial to allies and backers, said Alvarez.

    >Transparency International’s Peruvian chapter Proetica has cited Congress for “counter-reforms, setbacks in anti-corruption instruments… and shielding of members of Congress who are ethically questioned.”

    Meanwhile the Peruvian people –

    >Peruvians “feel it’s not worth it: if she resigns or is dismissed, she would be replaced by a member of Congress, but Congress also has a terrible image,” said Ipsos manager Torres.

    >In addition, “there is no other candidate that captivates, which is why people are not in a hurry to remove her from power.”

    She’s still in power cos the Peruvian people hate their Parliament just as they hate the President. If you think your country’s politics is broken and all politicians are corrupt, at least you’re not Peru lol!

  2. Peruvians “feel it’s not worth it: if she resigns or is dismissed, she would be replaced by a member of Congress, but Congress also has a terrible image,”

    So despite the 2% approval rating Congress is even worse lol

  3. I think Trump takes that title. She may be more unpopular in her own country, but hardly anyone outside of Peru knows of her. Trump on the other hand is reviled around the world even if 75 million dipshits in the United States voted for him.

  4. If I’m not mistaken, Peru wasn’t happy with their previous presidents as well: Fujimori for example. Among those who served in that position, many lasted between a few months and a year (with some up to a week)!

    Therefore what the OP claims, fits the Peruvian political scene…

Comments are closed.