Luis Castañeda should be set to win the presidential elections on 10 April. The former mayor of Lima is deemed to be by far the most credible candidate - 51% of respondents in the latest opinion survey by Datum said they would believe his word - and the most honourable. Just 3% thought Castañeda had links to drug-trafficking, compared with 25% for Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori; 21% for former president Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), and 16% for Ollanta Humala, the nationalist option. Castañeda also outperformed the other three candidates by similar margins with respect to perceived corruption in his inner circle, and was seen as by far the least likely to govern irresponsibly. Why is he not streets ahead?
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