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The closing of the campaign confirmed the same uncertainties and fears facing election Sunday, when the polls will be opened for Peruvians to decide between

two populist extremisms

in the midst of a pandemic that has claimed more than 180,000 lives.

Several crises one above the other, as if it were a matryoshka doll: the economic one in the heat of the coronavirus and politics, which has taken

three presidents

ahead

in a single legislature and has driven its citizens to exhaustion.

The staging was the one sought by both contenders.

The leftist Pedro Castillo managed to fill the Plaza del Dos de Mayo in Lima, the territory of his rival, and the right-wing

Keiko Fujimori

sealed the truce with those who fought his father, the dictator Alberto Fujimori, with a hug from Álvaro Vargas Llosa, son of the Nobel Prize.

The latest polls confirm that vote by vote is being fought in this final stretch of the campaign. According to the average of six polls, including those by Datum and Ipsos,

Castillo maintains a minimal advantage

over Keiko:

50.1% compared to 49.9%

, in an obvious technical tie that will be decided on Sunday. The last two presidential elections were also decided by a few thousand votes.

"We are going to be respectful of this Constitution and its institutions until the people decide," said the trade unionist from Peru Libre from the balcony of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP).

Castillo, who has

softened proposals such

as the prohibition of imports ("yes - they will be maintained - but with priority for national production"), proposes in his government plan the convocation of a

Constituent Assembly,

key in the Bolivarian manual for the seizure of all the powers of the State.

Castillo had the support of

Verónika Mendoza,

leader of Together for Peru and official candidate of the Puebla Group, and spoke with former Uruguayan president Pepe Mújica, in another attempt to soften his radical positions.

A few kilometers away, in the popular Villa El Salvador, Keiko staged the reunion with old enemies with his own brother,

Kenji Fujimori,

faced since the breakdown of the parliamentary group of Fuerza Popular (FP) in 2017, when the now leader of Cambio 21 he refused to remove the then president, Pedro Pablo Kuczyinski. FP parliamentarians have actively participated in the congressional attacks against presidents, one of the reasons, along with corruption, of the national disgust with political parties.

"The budget does not matter if there is a recurring control, there are no questions," Keiko assured his audience.

On the daughter of the dictator, who was in prison for more than a year, weighs a judicial process in which the Prosecutor's Office

proposes 30 years in prison

for corruption.

"With Castillo, in truth, we do not know what will happen. In his environment there is a great internal chongo (mess), improvisation and little expertise. With Keiko, on the other hand,

we know quite well what will happen. The campaign left him again. very clear "

, sums up the sociologist Juan Luis Dammert.

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