The socialist candidate Pedro Castillo is on the verge of victory, but fraud claims and a hostile elite could stymie his agenda, says Latin America expert Tony Wood
In voting on June 6, Pedro Castillo, candidate of the Peru Libre (Free Peru) political party, defeated three-time presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori.
Right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori and radical leftist Pedro Castillo were locked in a “statistical draw” in an exit poll as voting closed in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday.