Overview
- An Ipsos survey published in mid-September shows approval fell from 57% in August to 42% in September while disapproval rose from 25% to 48%.
- The poll of 1,176 people found wide regional gaps with 73% disapproval in the south and higher support concentrated in Lima and upper socioeconomic groups.
- Commentators link the drop to stalled security measures, unresolved requests for special legislative powers, and a series of cabinet management errors and mixed messaging.
- Opinion pages differ in emphasis: Diario Jornada highlights the lack of concrete security actions, and Gestión warns that repeated personnel and messaging mistakes are consolidating a narrative of unreadiness to govern.
- Analysts say the government must show rapid, tangible results on policing, unified command and prison reform or risk deeper erosion of support and tougher battles with Congress that could affect public safety policy.