Peru: Election for Fortune Tellers
Most of Peru´s traditional parties reacted Tuesday with anger once a poll showed Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala in second place for the April 2006 general elections.

The Peruvian Company in Market Research revealed the Nationalist Party leader has reached the 15 percent of the people´s support.

Humala is preceded by the right-wing National Unit (NU) candidate Lourdes Flores, with 25.6 percent of registered voters, and gained ground before former president Alan Garcia, the Peruvian Aprista Party candidate, with 13.4 percent.

For Lourdes Flores, Humala´s electoral upturn illustrates people´s dissatisfaction with the democratic system.

Inside the right-wing alliance, concern with Flores´ downward tendency and Humala´s upward is so noticeable that NU Congressman Jose Barba said if surveys confirmed Flores drop her candidacy should be re-taken.

Regarding Humala, the Congressman affirmed that a people´s sector "has invented him" to punish the government, political parties and all the democratic system.

Valentin Paniagua, another ex-president distanced by the young retired Colonel, asserted there was a wide sector in the country ready for the firm hand that backs leaders as Ollanta Humala.

Meanwhile, Vice President David Waisman pointed out that Humala´s position was extremely racist, radical and extremist.

What is true is that still over four months from the April 2006 elections, no polls are needed, rather a magic ball to know where the electoral balance will go.