Wall Street Vet Edges Closer to Winning Cliffhanger Peru Vote
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former central banker and presidential candidate, waves at supporters from a balcony in Lima.
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Fujimori trails by 0.32 percentage point as count nears end
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Both candidates are market friendly and plan to spend big
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former central banker and veteran of Wall Street, is getting closer to winning the tightest electoral race in Peru’s history as the count nears its conclusion.
Kuczynski has 50.16 percent of votes with 99.1 percent of ballots counted, compared with 49.84 percent for Keiko Fujimori, the country’s election office said Tuesday.
“Our calculations indicate that Kuczynski is still going to win, but by the narrowest of margins,” Guillermo Loli, opinion polling manager at Ipsos Peru, said earlier today. “We’re finishing the election in the worst way, with the country split in two and no clear winner, which could complicate things in terms of governability.”…
Wall Street Vet Edges Closer to Winning Cliffhanger Peru Vote
