Peru Election Goes Down to the Wire in Last Days of Campaign
- Two surveys show Castillo’s lead within margin of error
- Castillo would renegotiate contracts; Fujimori: more spending
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Peru’s presidential race is tightening a week before the runoff between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, according to two opinion polls published Sunday.
In a vote simulation conducted by Ipsos and published in El Comercio newspaper, leftist front-runner Castillo would get 51.1% in the June 6 election compared with 48.9% for Fujimori, within the poll’s 2.5 percentage point margin of error. Some 20% of voters were still undecided. The poll of 1,517 people was conducted on May 28.