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  Given Peru’s recent past it would be understandable if few people were willing to put their names forward for Sunday’s presidential election. The presidential sash seems cursed. One former president is in the US fighting extradition home to face corruption charges. His successor took his own life as police knocked on his door. A third spent nine months in jail on remand, while his impeached successor is under house arrest and the two men who followed him, also bundled out early, are both under investigation. You have to go back to 1985 for the last time an elected president left ...

(Repeats to change subscribers’ story label) LIMA, March 10 (Reuters) - George Forsyth, a former professional soccer goalkeeper, is targeting Peru’s angry youth to help his candidacy at presidential elections next month, pledging to turn the page on decades of corruption scandals in the copper-rich Andean nation. Forsyth, whose mother is a former Miss Chile and father is Peru’s ambassador to Japan, is among the front-runners for the April 11 ballot though the field is split and many voters are undecided. The 38-year-old conservative has vowed to maintain macroeconomic stability, but als...

5 Min Read LIMA (Reuters) - George Forsyth, a former professional soccer goalkeeper, is targeting Peru’s angry youth to help his candidacy at presidential elections next month, pledging to turn the page on decades of corruption scandals in the copper-rich Andean nation. Former soccer goalkeeper George Forsyth, presidential candidate of the National Victory party, attends an interview with Reuters, in Lima, Peru March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Angela Ponce Forsyth, whose mother is a former Miss Chile and father is Peru’s ambassador to Japan, is among the front-runners for the April 11 ballot thoug...