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Weekly Report - 25 January 2018 (WR-18-03)

PERU: Kuczynski’s woes continue

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski might have expected a brief respite this week as Pope Francis carried out a three-day visit to Peru. Instead the pope’s unvarnished reference to the political crisis in the country put him in an awkward position. Kuczynski compounded his problems with a casual aside to the pontiff which earned a stiff rebuke from the main opposition Fuerza Popular (FP, Fujimoristas). Kuczynski could be on borrowed time. The FP is largely consumed by infighting between Keiko and Kenji Fujimori at present, but once this is resolved in the not-too-distant future Kuczynski will be in the firing line again.

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