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Weekly Report - 18 February 2016 (WR-16-07)
PERU: Reading the runes amid electoral uncertainty
The main focus of Peru’s presidential race with less than two months of the campaign to go is on whether candidates can run rather than whether they can win. This week it is the candidacy of Julio Guzmán, second in the opinion polls, which is up in the air after a ruling by the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE). The fate of the man he displaced in the polls, César Acuña, is still unclear due to allegations of plagiarising his doctoral thesis, and now cash handouts. If Guzmán and Acuña are both barred from running it would create serious electoral uncertainty. Guzmán has emerged as the first real threat to Keiko Fujimori in a likely run-off election in June, but there are others, well adrift at present, who could surge into contention as the anti-Fujimorista candidate if he is excluded from the race.
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