Peruvians will pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography.
Peruvians will pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo.
Polls show the race in a statistical dead heat but with Ms Fujimori, who had earlier trailed Mr Castillo, pulling slightly ahead. In this 24 March, 2021 file photo, presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori waves to supporters as she campaigns on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.Mr Castillo, 51, an elementary school teacher and union leader, has galvanised support from Peru's rural poor - and scared investors – with pledges to nationalise the mining sector, a stance he later sought to take back. He has vowed to alter multinational companies’ tax regimes and wants to rewrite the country's constitution.
In this 16 April, 2021 file photo, Free Peru party presidential candidate Pedro Castillo poses for a photo on his property in Chugur, Peru.Many Peruvians hold a deep mistrust of politicians following two decades in which five former presidents have been investigated or prosecuted for corruption. "They promise everything until they get into government but then they forget about the poor, they just think of themselves and their own people," she told Reuters.Peru's interim president Manuel Merino faces calls to resign after three protesters killedOverseas Peruvians make up around one million, almost four per cent of the 25 million-strong electoral roll. Normally, few of them vote – only 0.
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