Peru in right votes after Fujimori lead slips

[Judi Lynn]

Peru in right votes after Fujimori lead slips
5 Jun 2016

Peruvians voted Sunday in a tight presidential election between the daughter of an ex-president jailed for massacres and a former Wall Street banker.

Last-minute polls showed conservative Keiko Fujimori, 41, tied with her center-right rival Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, 77.

The election has forced voters to confront the South American nation's dark past. A 1980-2000 civil war involving leftist insurgents killed an estimated 70,000 people.

Many mistrust Keiko Fujimori because her father Alberto is in jail for corruption and the slaughter of alleged terrorists in the 1990s.

More:
https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/peru-right-votes-after-fujimori-lead-slips

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141477287

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Jun 5, 12:11 PM EDT

The Latest: Peru candidates breakfast with backers

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Regardless of who wins today's election, Peru's next first spouse will be an American.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski met his wife Nancy Lange while working in the U.S. and they managed a private equity fund together in Miami. Lange is a relative of Hollywood actress Jessica Lange.

Keiko Fujimori met her husband Mark Villanella while studying abroad in the U.S. after she had already served as Peru's first lady following her parents' divorce. For a while, he was working as a consultant to IBM in Peru.

Both Lange and Villanella are considered close advisers to the candidates but have assumed a low profile on the campaign trail.

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_PERU_PRESIDENTIAL_ELECTION_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-06-05-11-46-17

[Judi Lynn]

1. Peru Weighs Ex-Central Banker Against Autocrat’s Daughter

Peru Weighs Ex-Central Banker Against Autocrat’s Daughter

John Quigley
June 5, 2016 — 12:01 AM CDT
Updated on June 5, 2016 — 1:40 PM CDT

Latest polls showed Fujimori lost narrow lead over Kuczynski

Both candidates have offered to boost spending, public works

Peruvians are voting in a presidential runoff between an ex-central banker and the daughter of an autocrat, both pro-business and both statistically tied in the latest polls.

Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. local time. Close to 23 million people are expected to cast their ballots after no candidate won more than 50 percent in the first round of voting in April. Ipsos and GFK will release exit polls after voting ends, with the first official results expected at 9 p.m.

The election pits Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president, against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, an ex-central banker and Wall Street veteran. Both candidates have pledged to continue market-friendly policies that have bolstered growth for more than a decade, focusing the electoral debate on issues such as tackling crime, expanding public services and bringing workers and small businesses into the formal economy.

“Whoever wins, governing won’t be easy,” Urpi Torrado, chief executive officer of polling company Datum Internacional, said in an interview. “There’s an anti-Keiko movement that’s taken to the streets, while Kuczynski would have to govern with just 18” seats in the 130-seat Congress, compared with 73 for Fujimori, Torrado said.

More:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-05/peru-voters-weigh-ex-central-banker-against-autocrat-s-daughter

[Judi Lynn]

2. Exit polls suggest Kuczynski ahead in tight Peru election

Exit polls suggest Kuczynski ahead in tight Peru election

Joshua Goodman and Franklin Briceno, Associated Press

Updated 4:29 pm, Sunday, June 5, 2016



LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvians chose between two conservative candidates in a tight presidential election on Sunday, with exit polls suggesting that a former World Bank economist was narrowly ahead of the daughter of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori.

Local pollster Ipsos-Apoyo said Pedro Pablo Kuczynski would get about 50.4 percent of the votes, compared with 49.6 percent for his rival Keiko Fujimori. Another local pollster, Gfk, which was the most-accurate in predicting results from the first round of voting, showed Kuczynski winning by more than 2 percentage points, while a third poll by CPI showed Fujimori winning by 3 points.

Official results aren't expected until after 9 p.m. local time. A potential swing vote in a close race could be the 885,000 Peruvians eligible to vote abroad — about 3.8 percent of the electorate.

While Fujimori finished atop a field of 10 candidates in the first round of voting by almost 20 points and was leading ahead of Sunday's runoff, Kuczynski managed to narrow the gap against his better-organized rival in the final stretch by abandoning his above-the-fray, grandfatherly appeal and hitting Fujimori hard.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Peru-votes-in-tightening-race-shaped-by-7964054.php

[Judi Lynn]

3. L Coyote just posted a few minutes ago that Kuczynski won by more than 1 point.Much, much better.n/t