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Weekly Report - 7 April 2011 (WR-11-14)
PERU: Second round the only certainty
There is only one certainty about the result of the Peruvian general
election taking place on Sunday (10 April): none of the 10 candidates (of which
five feature in the opinion polls) will win an absolute majority and so
become president. As the recent Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa
eloquently put it, the choice for a large segment of Peruvians seems to be
between “AIDS and cancer", meaning that voters are hedging their choice to pick
the least detrimental option, not the one they consider best for the country.
Thus, more likely than not, voters will have to turn to the polls once again (on
5 June) to decide who will be the next Peruvian president.
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