Peru’s President Pablo Kuczynski’s approval rating plummeted by 11 percentage points over the course of the last month. On the plus side, Kuczynski is not alone. The entire political class has suffered a decline in popularity by association with the bribery scheme conducted by the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht [WR-17-03], including Keiko Fujimori, the leader of the main opposition Fuerza Popular (FP) Kuczynski narrowly defeated in last year’s presidential elections. On the negative side, the last 15 years have demonstrated that once Peruvian heads of state start to slide in opinion polls, they tend to keep going with a concomitant erosion of their credibility when they flirt with single figure approval ratings.End of preview - This article contains approximately 700 words.
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