Weekly Report - 1 July 2010 (WR-10-26)

Jaime Bayly, an outspoken journalist and talk show host, launched a political campaign this week with two huge advertising hoardings in Lima for his new party No nos ganan (NNG). Bayly has consistently jested about his intention to seek the Peruvian presidency, and is still yet to confirm it, but with just days to go to register candidates in time for regional and municipal elections in October, this campaign looks to be directed squarely at the presidential and congressional elections in April 2011. Bayly formed the NNG after falling out with José Barba Caballero, who had offered Bayly the presidential candidacy of his Cambio Radical party.