S8 Ep682: 8. Evan Ellis previews Peru’s upcoming presidential election and a closely contested race in Brazil. He discusses how corruption scandals are impacting Lula da Silva’s popularity against Flavio Bolsonaro, representing their fathers' legacies. (8)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my colleague and friend Evan Ellis back from Chile elections. |
| 0:22.3 | Peru and Brazil come immediately to mine because there's news on Peru. The question here is China or not China? |
| 0:29.1 | And is there an indication, professor from all of the Americas about the Peruvian election? |
| 0:34.6 | Absolutely, John. It's still a little bit early to tell. We're looking at round one in Peru's two-round presidential election. Absolutely, John. It's still a little bit early to tell. We're looking at round one |
| 0:39.6 | and Peru's two round presidential elections on April 12th. In all likelihood, it will go to a second |
| 0:45.1 | round on June 7th with the new president inaugurated July 28th. But right now, it's between |
| 0:52.8 | essentially two right-of-center people, both of which are somewhat |
| 0:56.5 | problematic. |
| 0:57.8 | But Keku Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's previous president and military ruler, and |
| 1:04.5 | Rafael Lopez Amayaga, known affectionately as Porki, another kind of center-right figure in the Proving Congress. |
| 1:13.4 | There are some other figures who are running not too far behind. One of the figures that my |
| 1:18.5 | colleagues expressed some concern over is Alfonso Lopez Chow, who may have some corrupt |
| 1:25.3 | business dealings and at the left could be positioning as an alternative. |
| 1:30.0 | The real question is that right now it looks like the two right center candidates, |
| 1:34.7 | Keiko and Lopez Adiaga will make it to round one, and then it'll be a competition between |
| 1:40.0 | which of those essentially problematic right of center candidates, and that could lead to a pro-US |
| 1:45.2 | government. And the other bit of good news is that Prue just switched over from a single house |
| 1:52.4 | legislature to a dual house legislature, which could make it less difficult for legislatures to |
| 1:58.2 | essentially vote presidents out of office, which has led us to have, |
| 2:02.3 | you know, literally nine presidents in the last 10 years. But so having said that, that we're on a |
| 2:07.9 | path where you could get a center-right government that could be relatively stable, finally. |
| 2:13.8 | But having said that, A, it's not certain that it will be those two, somebody like Lopez |
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