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The candidate for the Presidency of Peru and former soccer goalkeeper George Forsyth denied having anything Chilean or Venezuelan despite being born in Caracas and his mother being Maria Veronica Sommer, a Chilean of German descent who in 1976 was elected Miss Chile.
On the other hand, Forsyth did admit in an interview on the television program “Beto a saber” to have, in addition to Peruvian, German nationality, which he inherited from his mother.
The former goalkeeper of Alianza Lima and the Peru team, among other teams, recalled that his father, the Peruvian ambassador HArold forsyth, He met his mother when he was a diplomat in Chile and then he was born when his father was stationed at the Embassy of Peru in Venezuela.
“He was in Chile and met Miss Chile, and as a good Peruvian, he brought Miss Chile. He went and conquered Chile. We gave them their revenge”, joked Forysth in reference to the War of the Pacific (1879-1884), where the Chileans invaded a good part of present-day Peruvian territory.
Asked if he did not see the sexist way in which he related it, Forsyth replied that he did not, because he would tell it in the same way if his mother had gone to Chile to bring “the most handsome in Chile” to Peru.
The presidential candidate of Victoria Nacional, a party created by the evangelical pastor Humberto Lay, assured that it is “cero chamo (Venezuelan)” and that he has not been Chilean for a second of his life. “I have nothing that is Chilean”, he stressed.
Forsyth affirmed that his mother also has Peruvian nationality, which is why he considers himself purely Peruvian on both sides.
“I was born to two Peruvian parents. I was born in Venezuela because my father worked in Caracas representing Peru. I was not registered with the Chilean consulate. I was registered in the consulate of Peru, that’s why I am Peruvian by birth. I’m nothing ‘chamo’, zero chamo ‘”, emphasized Forsyth.
“I have Peruvian nationality and I also have a German passport, that yes from my mother, and I did receive that. I did not receive Chilean nationality,” added the candidate, whose father is currently the Peruvian ambassador to Japan.
Without hardly lavishing himself on interviews in the media, Forsyth has gone in the last month from leading the polls of voting intention to be the next president of Peru to fall to third position, surpassed by the centrist Yonhy Lescano and the leftist leader Verónika Mendoza.
After his sporting career, Forsyth recently jumped into politics in 2018, when he was elected mayor of La Victoria, the original district of Alianza Lima, but he barely completed half of his term, as he resigned from office to launch into the presidential race.
From his tenure as mayor, Forsyth likes to highlight that in La Victoria he installed the largest national flag in Peru, as a way to reaffirm his nationality and patriotism.
