In Peru’s runoff election, a razor-thin victory by leftist Pedro Castillo will likely put an end to the country’s neoliberal consensus. However, political turmoil is set to continue.
In a highly contested presidential election in Peru, socialist political outsider Pedro Castillo seems to have beat Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, by a margin of less than 100,000 votes of the 18 million total votes cast. This result represents a broad rejection of the country’s political establishment and a watershed moment for Peruvian politics. It lays bare deep-seated frustration after Peru has been led by four presidents (and eight finance ministers) over the past five years, seen massive political upheaval and protest, and more recently suffered the world’s highest per capita COVID-19 death rate (over 500 deaths per 100,000 people)…
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