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Weekly Report - 27 August 2015 (WR-15-34)
PERU: Electoral campaign cranks into gear
Peruvian presidential pre-candidates are popping up by the week with just over seven months to go until the first round of elections take place to find the successor to President Ollanta Humala. Keiko Fujimori is the clear frontrunner in the early opinion polls but this is a reflection of the solidity of the Fujimorista base of support, which no other national party enjoys. How far she can expand beyond this is a moot point but, with half of Peru’s population under 25, she should benefit from the fact that by the time the elections take place it will be nearly 16 years since the downfall of the authoritarian kleptocracy of her father, former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000). As ever in Peru, there is scope for an outsider to emerge. Given the youthful demographic, Verónica Mendoza Frisch, 35, grabbed attention when she used YouTube to throw her hat into the ring last week.
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