US EditionPeruvian presidential candidate dies in traffic accident in the Andes
Napoleón Becerra, 61, had less than 1% in polls before his fatal crash on a remote highway, with three passengers injured, officials reported.
- On Sunday, a Peruvian presidential candidate died in a car accident on a remote Andean highway while traveling to a political rally; Napoleón Becerra, 61, was the Workers and Entrepreneurs Party candidate.
- Facing an extended political crisis, Peruvians hope the general elections will put a halt to the country’s instability as José María Balcázar, 83, became Peru’s eighth president in a decade in February.
- In the rural district of Pilpichaca, authorities said Becerra’s vehicle went off the road 430 kilometers southeast of Lima, injuring three passengers.
- With the field crowded at 36 candidates, a recent poll showed the leftist with less than 1% of the voting intentions, indicating limited national support.
- Ahead of the April 12 election, Napoleón Becerra was campaigning as part of the run-up to nationwide voting meant to address Peru’s broader political instability.
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Napoleon Becerra, Peru's presidential candidate who died in a traffic accident, was a long-standing public official who, at the age of 61.
The accident occurred near the town of Ayacucho, in southern Peru, when the car in which the candidate was traveling overturned for reasons that are being investigated.
The sixty-seven-year-old aspiring head of state Napoleon Becerra died this Sunday in Huancavelica while traveling to a proselytizing act, impacting the April electoral process in the Andean nation.
For EFE Peru's presidential candidate Napoleon Becerra, who was one of the 36 candidates for head of state in the general elections of April, died in a traffic accident when he was heading for a proselytizing activity in the south of the country, Peruvian state media and sources of his party reported this Sunday. Becerra, who was 67 years old and was leading the leftist Workers' and Entrepreneurs' Party (PTE-Peru), suffered the accident on the h…
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