Peru Presidential Election Tightens in Poll After Deadly Attack

Castillo got 42.6% vs 41.7% for Fujimori in Datum survey
Nation’s bonds and currency also rallied after poll published

Pedro Castillo, presidential candidate for the Peru Libre party, speaks during a campaign rally in Lima, Peru, on Thursday, May 27, 2021.Photographer: Miguel Yovera/Bloomberg

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By Maria Elena Vizcaino and Maria Cervantes

May 28, 2021 at 11:48 AM UTC

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May 28, 2021 at 4:34 PM UTC

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Peru’s stocks headed for their biggest gain in six months, and its bonds and currency also rallied as a poll showed the lead for leftist front-runner Pedro Castillo virtually disappearing.

Castillo would get 42.6% of the vote in the June 6 runoff compared with 41.7% for Keiko Fujimori, in a vote simulation conducted by Datum and published Friday in Gestion newspaper. The 0.9 percentage point gap is within the margin of error, and compares with a gap of 5.4 percentage points last week.