Perú: Entre los sobresaltos electorales y la agenda pendiente de la exclusión

2006 was a year of elections in Peru; Peruvians elected all their popular elected authorities. The most important outcome was the election of Alan García as President, and the surprising rise and fall of the outsider candidate, Ollanta Humala, between the April presidential election and the November regional and municipal elections. The anti-system discourse and the authority figure that Humala projected gained an important popular support, whose geographical distribution revealed the cleavages present in Peruvian society. Those results put in agenda the problem of social inclusion. However, the weakness of the opposition to the García government has weaken the importance of this issue, despite the fact that the problems that explain it are still in place.