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Weekly Report - 27 February 2014 (WR-14-08)
PERU: PM’s exit exposes divisions at heart of government
There cannot be too many examples of a government managing to squander a surge in support quite so suddenly and spectacularly. President Ollanta Humala’s popularity, which jumped in the wake of the nationalist sentiment stirred up by Peru’s maritime triumph over Chile at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), fell to a new nadir just three weeks later. An attempt to capitalise on the feel-good factor by doubling ministerial salaries backfired; then internal divisions in the cabinet were laid bare by an unedifying spat over plans to raise the minimum wage. This culminated in the prime minister, César Villanueva, tendering his resignation just four months after he was hailed as the one politician capable of rescuing a fraught dialogue process with the opposition and transforming the government’s rocky relations with the regions and civil society.
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