Right-leaning Fujimori holds narrow lead one week before Peru's presidential runoff, polls show
Two polls show Fujimori ahead by 2 to 4 points as 27% of voters say they will spoil their ballot or stay home.
- Right-Wing candidate Keiko Fujimori leads with around 38-40% of votes in Peru's presidential runoff polls, while leftist Roberto Sanchez has about 35-36% support.
- Fujimori is the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori and leads after winning 17% in the first round; Sanchez is an ally of jailed former President Pedro Castillo and narrowly advanced to the runoff with 12%.
- Polls show about 27% of voters are undecided or plan to spoil their ballots, making these voters a key factor in the outcome.
- The polls' margins of error are under 3 percentage points, indicating a close race between Fujimori and Sanchez.
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The second round of the presidential elections in Peru on Sunday, June 7, which are being contested by right-wing Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez, is not only defined between both tendencies, but between fujimorism and anti-fujimorism, the currents that have divided the country around a surname that has marked Peruvian politics for more than 30 years.
Epifania Almeyda was 15 years old when she left her hometown, Ayacucho, in the Andes, to escape the armed conflict that plagued Peru. Three decades later, in a neighborhood in northeastern Lima, she lives terrorized by criminals who extort and kill in daylight. Almeyda hopes, as well as almost 70% of Peruvians, according to research, that the end of this scourge is the priority of the winner of the second round of Sunday presidential elections, …
In the week of the vote, the scenario indicates technical tie
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori maintains a slight advantage over leftist Roberto Sánchez in the intention to vote, according to the latest Ipsos poll, published this Sunday by Peru 21, although the difference remains in the margin...
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