Presidential election in Peru: Pedro Castillo in the lead, a second round planned
According to the first partial results, Pedro Castillo (radical left) leads with 15.8% of the vote, ahead of the liberal economist Hernando de Soto (14.7%).
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The radical left candidate Pedro Castillo surprised Peru by coming in first.
Liberal economist Hernando de Soto should be his competitor.
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According to the first official results, the teacher and trade unionist of the radical left Pedro Castillo leads (15.8% of the vote) in the first round of the presidential election and thus confirms his soaring rise for 3 weeks.
It is therefore guaranteed to pass to the second round, says
our correspondent in Lima
,
Wyloën Munhoz-Boillot
.
Shortly before midnight (5 a.m. in universal time) the National Electoral Office indicated that liberal economist Hernando de Soto (14.7%) came in second, followed by businessman Rafael Lopez Aliaga ( 13.1%, extreme right) then Keiko Fujimori (12.1% populist right), the daughter of ex-president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), candidate for the third time.
The gap between these 3 candidates is particularly tight.
The results could therefore easily change over the course of the official vote count.
The second round is scheduled for June 6.
In addition, Peruvians also voted this Sunday, April 11 to renew the 130 members of Congress, the unicameral Parliament of Peru.
And according to initial projections, between 9 and 11 political parties could be represented.
The future president - whoever he is - will therefore have to face a Congress without a majority which promises to be just as fragmented as the current Congress.
This does not exclude a new political crisis, like the one that Peru has experienced over the past five years through perpetual clashes between the executive and the legislature.
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