Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori is slightly ahead of socialist rival Pedro Castillo in Peru's nail-biting presidential runoff, an exit poll shows
A Peruvian resident prepares to cast her vote for the presidential election runoff in a polling station at the Ifema congress center in Madrid on June 6, 2021.
The new leader will need to tackle a country in crisis, suffering from recession and with the worst coronavirus fatality rate in the world after recording over 184,000 deaths among its 33 million population. Speaking to journalists and supporters on Sunday morning, she promised to "respect the popular will," no matter the outcome of the voting.
"For us it's a dream, it's an awakening, we're really happy to be with" Castillo, said evangelical priest Victor Cieza Rivera, whose church in Tacabamba, a village in Cajamarca, is attended by the presidential candidate's wife Lilia Paredes. "I don't even want to vote, neither of them deserve it, but Castillo panics me so I'm going to vote for Fujimori," said trucker Johnny Samaniego, 51, who lives in Lima.
She'll have to quickly calm the markets and generate ways to reactivate them," political scientist Jessica Smith told AFP.
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