Peru's Presidential Race Remains Deadlocked as Partial Count Reverses Exit Poll

Peru's pandemic-devastated economy (11% GDP drop in 2020) has marginalized millions, fueling Castillo's unexpected electoral surge among impoverished interior regions.

In the high-altitude tension of a nation still reeling from pandemic collapse, Peru found itself suspended between two visions of itself on Sunday night — one rooted in the fears of an economic establishment, the other in the grievances of millions left behind by decades of unequal growth. A razor-thin margin of four tenths of a percentage point separated the schoolteacher-turned-union-organizer Pedro Castillo from the embattled heiress of a controversial political dynasty, Keiko Fujimori, in a runoff whose outcome remained, by any statistical measure, unresolved. What hung in the balance was

Peru's Presidential Race Remains Deadlocked as Partial Count Reverses Exit Poll

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