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Weekly Report - 22 August 2013 (WR-13-33)
PERU: Humala confronts huge popularity slump
President Ollanta Humala’s approval rating has tumbled for the sixth straight month, hitting a fresh low of just 29%. This is a figure more commonly associated with recent Peruvian heads of state than the ‘elevated’ popularity of around 50% he enjoyed only in April, but the speed of the decline is a serious cause for concern for Humala. The announcement by his prime minister, Juan Jiménez, that the government is inviting all political parties to participate in talks, looks like a slightly desperate attempt to try and halt the slide as well as being an indirect acknowledgement of its poor handling of inter-party relations.
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