Hugo Ñopo in The New York Times: “Peru’s Congress has become a ‘a Molotov cocktail’, built on unstable ingredients mixed together from years of misguided policy”
“Peru’s Congress has become a ‘a Molotov cocktail’, built on unstable ingredients mixed together from years of misguided policy”, said Hugo Ñopo in The New York Times. According to our senior researcher, these ingredients are three. The first ingredient was a weak and fragmented party system that encouraged politicians to shift alliances to suit their interests. The second was the lack of stringent limits on campaign financing, allowing businesses to pour money into candidates and buy influence. And the third was a 2018 referendum, passed by voters, that limited congressional service to a single term.
