With reputation in tatters. This is how it remained Congress after the last survey that Ipsos carried out for Perú21. The rejection is no longer only of his parliamentary management or his party interests; Today, even 92% of Peruvians believe that some legislators are part of criminal organizations, which speaks of absolute discredit.
Furthermore, 81% believe that a prostitution network did exist within Parliament, a case that came to light after the crime of a Congress worker and that has been investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
For José Cevasco, former senior congressional official, Parliament should make urgent reforms to improve its institutional image and assume a public commitment that includes a public mea culpa.
“People evaluate the perceptions of the individual behaviors of some congressmen and generalize that opinion towards the entire Congress. After these results, I believe that Congress has to transmit urgent reforms, first of administrative functioning, and then, make a public and joint mea culpa. I do not remember that parliamentarians or Congress as an institution have transmitted a mea culpa to the population for the bad perceptions they generate. It would be good, an act of apology for some behaviors of its members,” Cevasco analyzed.
For the former chief of staff, Congress does not have an efficient communication strategy.
“You need a communication strategy that engages all congressmen, I’m talking about the communication generated by the parliamentarians themselves. Each parliamentarian, each bench has diverse, dispersed opinions and that confuses public opinion. In a world where transparency is the daily bread, the political class has to understand that it is permanently evaluated by the population,” he indicated.
Cevasco considers that some laws approved in Congress – among them those referring to organized crime or preliminary detention – have contributed to further increasing citizen rejection.
“There are important laws that Congress approved, but it is the most controversial approved regulations that generate these bad perceptions,” he said.
“THEY DO NOT FEEL REPRESENTED”
José Elice, also a former senior congressional official, believes that the results of this survey show once again that Peruvians no longer feel represented by those who represent them.
“These are new examples of the perception that Peruvians have of the degradation that exists at this time and the sustained growth of organized crime, which unfortunately has reached the political spheres. We are experiencing an increasingly deep crisis of political representation. People do not feel identified with who should be their representatives,” explained Elice.
“It is in a very serious institutional situation and we cannot control it. The only way, I believe, is to stir citizen conscience and try all together to tell the politicians, enough is enough, because we are going to lose the country,” he said.
Take advantage of the NEW EXPERIENCE, receive our enriched digital newspaper by mail and WhatsApp. Peru21 ePaper.
Now available in Yape! Find us at YAPE Promos.
RECOMMENDED VIDEO:
