Dina Boluarte completed six months at the head of Peru and only 5% of the population trusts her ability to govern

Dina Boluarte, president of Peru, during a press conference at the Government Palace in Lima.CRIS BOURONCLE (AFP)

After several crises, last Wednesday Dina Boluarte reached six months in the Palace. A feat if one takes into account how he began his Government last December, unleashing a social upheaval and, with it, irreparable losses in almost 70 families. Boluarte, who succeeded Pedro Castillo abruptly after his fleeting coup d'état, assumed a country that did not elect her and that demanded for months an advance of elections that has fallen into uncertainty and whose discussion has vanished in public opinion.

The pollster Datum conducted a nationwide poll between June 3 and 7 that has not left well the first woman who has crossed the presidential sash in the Republican history of Peru. His disapproval has remained above 74% and in June has risen to 77%. The document asked how they would rate the ability to govern of the Apurimeña lawyer and only 5% gave their approval: 37% consider it terrible, 29% fair, 28% bad, 4% good, 1% excellent and 1% do not know.

An almost identical result is when respondents were asked about how much confidence the former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion generates them: 37% terrible, 29% bad, 28% fair, 4% good, 1% excellent and 1% do not know. The percentages practically did not change when asked about the honesty and honesty that Boluarte projects: again, 5% give their consent and 65% have serious doubts about it.

Datum also included a question about Amnesty International's report, published in late May, which alleges that the military and police committed extrajudicial executions and unlawfully used force against anti-government protesters. 45% said that there were extrajudicial executions, 34% that there was an attack and response from both parties, 14% denied the killings and 7% abstained from commenting.

In these six months, Boluarte has sustained several episodes of tension with his peers in the region. Proof of this is that Peru's diplomatic relations have been reduced to chargés d'affaires with Colombia, Mexico and Honduras. Congress, in fact, declared Gustavo Petro, the Colombian president, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, his Mexican counterpart, persona non grata. Regarding López Obrador, the survey asks citizens what position the government should take about her statements and her attitude of not recognizing her as the president of Peru. 41% responded that "we must not pay attention to it because it seeks prominence", 25% think it is enough that it has been declared persona non grata, 18% do not know and only 16% firmly believe that it would be better to radicalize measures: break relations with Mexico immediately.

The sample, which was taken from 1,203 people from the urban and rural population, is revealing about other politicians close to Boluarte. Its Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, has 71% disapproval while 61% disagree with the choice of lawyer Josué Gutiérrez as Ombudsman. In fact, only 15% believe that the institution they head will remain independent and objective. Finally, the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga suffered a fall in the last month: if in May he had 50% approval, in June that support was reduced by 10 percentage points.

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