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Weekly Report - 28 April 2016 (WR-16-16)

PERU: Game on as Kuczynski overhauls Keiko

The dust has settled after Peru’s presidential and congressional elections on 10 April and the second round is now underway in earnest. Several opinion surveys indicate that Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a distant second in the first round, has not only overturned the 19-percentage point margin of victory of Keiko Fujimori but also established a slight lead of his own ahead of the run-off on 5 June. If Kuczynski wins the second round, however, he could have a difficult time governing as the electoral authorities confirmed this week that Fujimori’s Fuerza Popular (FP) won an outright majority in congress.

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