Peruvian elections Peru election race tightens as Fujimori gains, poll shows | Reuters My Comment : One can only hope. And if all else fails just wait a year because Peru has had 5 elections in the past 5 years
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Peruvian right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has shrunk the gap on socialist rival Pedro Castillo in the country's presidential election race, according to a poll released on Friday, signally a closer contest in the June 6 vote.
The Datum poll showed former teacher Castillo, the surprise front-runner, only 5 percentage points ahead of Fujimori, the scion of a powerful political family whose father is an ex-president now in prison for corruption and human rights abuses.
Castillo had at one point appeared to be out of reach of Fujimori, with some polls showing him with double her level of support. But the race to run the copper-rich Andean nation has shown signs of tightening as the vote nears.
The shock rise of Castillo has rattled investors and miners, cautious of a sharp left turn in the world's No. 2 copper producer, which will be electing its fifth president in the past five years after a constitutional crisis last year.
Castillo, who has pledged to redraft Peru's constitution to give the state a more dominant role in the economy, has recently moved to moderate his stance in some areas to help win over centrist and center-left voters.