The pre-candidate Carlos Alvarezleader of the Country for All party, announced that he will not participate in the next edition of the CADE Executives 2025 electoral bloc, scheduled for November 6 in Lima.
The decision was communicated through a video broadcast on their networks, where they expressed their gratitude for the invitation, but harshly criticized the format of the business meeting, which they described as a space that does not reflect the reality of the country.
According to Álvarez, the forum has established itself as a “social activity of an elite” that analyzes the challenges of Peru from a perspective other than that of citizens who deal daily with informality and the difficulties of entrepreneurship.
“It is easy to comment on poverty while drinking champagne, fine pisco, accompanied by toast with caviar,” he noted.
The comedian also criticized the cost of access to the forum, which exceeds $3,000 per participant, and demanded clarity about the destination of the funds raised.
“With that price they automatically exclude those who have the most to say about how the country works or does not work: those who work, those who sell, those who fight to get ahead,” he said.
Proposes including citizen voices in the forum
Álvarez proposed that future editions of CADE include entrepreneurs, merchants, independent workers and even social leaders—people who know first-hand the relationship between the State, bureaucracy and inequality—to expand the debate and provide solutions based on real experiences.
Carlos Álvarez, candidate for País Para Todos, announces that he will not go to CADE 2025. It seems correct to me. In this video published on his social networks, he gives a series of compelling arguments. pic.twitter.com/dL8jmpMHLn
— Juan Sheput (@JuanSheput) October 25, 2025
Fuerza Popular will not participate either
As recalled, in the last few hours, the Fuerza Popular party also declined the invitation to participate in the CADE Executives 2025 electoral bloc. Through a letter signed by its national undersecretary, Miguel Ángel Torres, the group thanked the invitation, but detailed that it cannot commit to official participation due to scheduling complications of its potential presidential candidates and the continuity of its internal process for defining candidatures.
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