Peru's Political system

Peru's political system is based on a constitutional republic, with the president as the head of the government as well as the state. The president of Peru stays as the head for a term of five years and can be re-elected after his/her cycle is over. The president nowadays is Ollanta Humala, however the presidential will change once Pedro Pablo Kuchinsky becomes president on the 28th of this July (2016).

The last 5 years, Peru has been living in an improper democracy.

An example can be when the elections of this year took place. The candidates presented books written by other people, changed the votes and even allied with other candidates. This elections have demonstrated not a sick democracy in my country, but also that what really matters is the desire of wanting to be president, and the one who plays better with this desire achieves his goal. The citizens of Peru sometimes are very corrupt, for example, a candidate can win because of an arrangement, because of fraud. Also, popular demonstrations in times of elections are for supporting one of the candidates. However, curiously, this time was to oppose a candidate that precisely carried the majority of votes in the surveys, Keiko Fujimori. What they are now doing is trying to build bridges of healthy conversation between the executive and the legislature. If they achieve that understanding, perhaps we will arrive to have a genuine democracy.

My country’s improper democracy, can be also seen when they do not follow what a democracy should be like. In a democracy, the poor and rich citizens should have a voice to decide what can be produced, how much they want of it and how they want their condition to be like. However, Peru does not follow these. In Peru, the rich and the poor do not have a voice on this; instead the market is the one who decides the quantity and quality of what is produced. There’s a company in Peru called Sedapal, a service for portable water. What they do is decide the price for it; that’s why, this water does not reach the poor because it’s too expensive. It shouldn’t be like this, the government should decide how much it would cost for the poor people, or even reduce the price of it, for everyone to afford it since it’s a basic need.

In my country there are millions of poor people walking around the street, and let me tell you that the state is doing almost anything. In my opinion, Peru is using the money wisely since they are creating new ways to avoid the traffic, such as new tunnels, trains and new highways. What they can now do is that since they have already built some of them, they should leave the “traffic solution” separately, and maybe just focus on the poor for minimum some months. They don’t have to give them money or pay for their children, what I’m asking is to just built specific shelters for the people in the streets that don’t even have food or a place to sleep.

These past years, Peru has not been managing their government or market adequately. If this stays the same, our country will definitely not progress, something that all citizens wish for. Hopefully, when Pedro Pablo Kuchinsky becomes president, he creates an honest and revolutionary democracy; let’s wait and see.

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