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Weekly Report - 14 January 2016 (WR-16-02)

PERU: Keiko under attack as campaign season kicks off

Peru’s general election is now just three months away. Amid a crowded but rather uninspiring field of some 20 presidential candidates, voters face a difficult choice on 10 April. The contest will almost certainly go to a second round, necessary if no candidate secures 50% of the vote in the first. As things stand, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the jailed former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), is leading the pack for the first round and would defeat any of her rivals in a June run-off.

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