Peruvians vote in tight election, weigh Fujimori legacy

Peruvians voted in a presidential election on Sunday that pit right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president, against former World Bank economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, with the results still up for grabs. Fujimori’s lead over Kuczynski, 77, melted away in recent days, evoking memories of her close defeat to outgoing President […]

Peruvians voted in a presidential election on Sunday that pit right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president, against former World Bank economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, with the results still up for grabs.
Fujimori’s lead over Kuczynski, 77, melted away in recent days, evoking memories of her close defeat to outgoing President Ollanta Humala in 2011.
In opinion polls by Ipsos and GfK on Saturday, Kuczynski pulled slightly ahead of Fujimori, though the two remained in a statistical dead heat. A poll by CPI seen by a source gave Fujimori a slight advantage with 50.9 percent of votes to Kuczynski’s 49.1 percent.
The 41-year-old Fujimori, who would be Peru’s first female president, has spent the last five years seeking to broaden her appeal beyond loyalists to her father, Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for graft and human rights abuses.