Peruvian voters undecided with six days to go
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Preparation of ballots for the legislative and presidential elections in Peru on April 11, 2021. AFP - ERNESTO BENAVIDES
By: Mikaël Ponge
22 mins
Last week to make your choice in Peru.
Sunday April 11, the country will elect its new president and renew its parliament.
18 candidates are vying for the supreme magistracy, 2,500 for the legislative elections.
And yet, voters seem unable to decide.
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Six days before the presidential election, in a Peru devastated by the Covid pandemic and hit by repeated corruption scandals, voters are wondering.
Who to vote for on Sunday?
30% of them admit not knowing or hesitate to vote null or blank.
But the vote is compulsory, so we will have to decide, and it is not easy.
Even in Cuzco, a historically left-wing city where
Wyloën Munhoz-Boillot went
.
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Ecuador: the natives divided
On April 11, Ecuadorians too will have to decide between the two finalists in their presidential election.
Two trends that could be summarized as follows: the renewal of correism against anti-correism, named after ex-president Rafael Correa, exiled, but whose shadow hangs over the election.
His runner-up Andres Arauz took the lead in the first lap.
He faces, Sunday, a right-wing banker, Guillermo Lasso, who imposed himself by a hair on the indigenous candidate of the Pachakutik movement, Yaku Pérez.
He shouted fraud and called for a null vote.
But today the indigenous movement is divided.
Support Arauz or play into the game of the conservatives by opposing him.
Eric Samson
is in Quito.
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Haitian women in the streets
Women have taken to the streets in Haiti.
Usually the demonstrations bring together mostly men, mostly young.
But in Port-au-Prince, Saturday April 3, the procession was very largely female and brought together several generations of activists.
April 3 is the National Day of the Women's Movement, and this year feminist organizations have made a point of marking this date more in the face of the climate of insecurity and the political crisis.
Report by
Amélie Baron
.
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