Mexico and Peru elections: political and economic implications

Interpreting the recent results for both countries’ political and economic futures.

Research event, Panel Recording
15 June 2021 — 5:00PM TO 6:00PM
Online

Mexico and Peru elections: political and economic implications

— Interpreting the recent results for both countries’ political and economic futures.

In the second round of the presidential elections on 6 June, Peruvians chose between two starkly different candidates – the outsider, leftist union leader Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, the right-wing daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori.

On the same day, Mexican voters returned President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) MORENA party coalition to a majority in lower house congressional elections.

  • How should these results be interpreted for the countries’ political and economic futures?
  • How will Peru’s fractious congress respond to the new president?
  • How will civil society, the private sector, and a weakened opposition respond in Mexico should AMLO continue his current course?

Participants

Speaker: Ambassador Andrés Rozental, Founding President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Adviser, Chatham House

Dr Lucia Dammert, Professor of International Relations, Universidad de Chile

Chair: Dr Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America, Chatham House

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