In Peru’s presidential race there is no clear front runner
Eighteen candidates are battling it out in a general election on April 11th
WITH LESS than three weeks to go before Peru’s presidential election, opinion polls suggest a clear winner: a nihilist rejection of all 18 candidates. Add up the “don’t knows” and those who tell pollsters they will cast blank or spoilt ballots and they come to around 30%. But two people must go through to a run-off in June. Most of the candidates with a good shot of doing so are populists and outsiders, from both the left and right.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “And then there were lots”
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