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Weekly Report - 26 March 2026 (WR-26-12)
PERU: Plethora of candidates seek voter support
The sheer number of candidates competing in Peru’s presidential elections on 12 April required that they were split into three separate groups for the opening debates held this week. The vast majority of the 36 candidates taking part (one, Vladimir Cerrón, a fugitive from justice running for the left-wing Perú Libre, is not) have no chance of progressing to a second-round run-off which is a near-certainty given the fragmentation of the vote. The fact that the current frontrunner, Keiko Fujimori, of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (FP), has under 12% of the vote, however, means that the bar for progress to the run-off is likely to be as low as it was when Pedro Castillo made it through and defeated Fujimori in 2021.
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