Lima, December 5 (EFE). – Peruvian presidential candidate Phillip Butters, famous television presenter and businessman, announced this Friday his resignation from the right-wing party Avanza País, with which he planned to run in next year’s elections.
“I have made the decision to reject my presidential candidacy in Avanza País. There is no organization, control or minimum rigor that Peru deserves to face a serious election campaign. Thank you to everyone who supported the proposal,” Butters said on the social network X.
Butters, who had a voting intention of between 1.1% and 1.4% according to recent election polls, added that “pending allegations should not be included, named or even suggested.”
In addition, the television presenter himself distributed the notarial letter in which he announced his official resignation to the Avanza País party and in which he questions the right-wing party.
“It is clear to me that over time and since I joined the Party, it has not been possible to implement, let alone consolidate, minimum aspects of organization, control, financing and policy development that are fundamental to fulfilling a responsibility of the kind that the Party has given me,” Butters said.
The controversial communicator’s political campaign was marked when he had to leave the town of Juliaca accompanied by police, while a crowd pelted him with garbage and urine as they rejected his presence in this town in the highlands of southern Peru.
Citizen groups and relatives of those who died in the 2023 protests against the seizure of power by the now ousted President Dina Boluarte (2022-2025) after the imprisonment of Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) called for her immediate departure from the city, reminding her of her views at the time when she defended the shots fired by state forces at the demonstrators.
According to the CPI corporate poll released on Thursday, almost 50% of Peruvians do not have a candidate for the next elections. 30.7% remain undecided and 19.2% plan to vote blank or zero.
The first candidate in terms of voting intention is the far-right former mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, with 12.5%; followed by Keiko Fujimori, daughter and political heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), with 7.6%.
In third place is the brother of former President Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020), Mario Vizcarra, who accepted the candidacy for the Peru Primero party with 6.7% of the voting intentions after the former president was convicted of corruption. EFE
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