El derecho de sufragio en el Perú

Abstract

The right to vote and political participation are, in theory, intimately linked. They are or should be, in a certain way, directly proportional. This has not been the case in Peru in the last two centuries. The extension of suffrage, paradoxically, reduced popular participation and the freedom of the reader. The vote of the illiterate, far from allowing them a greater participation in the political life of the country, increased the power of the gamonales.