Peru’s Election Has Been the Most Hate Filled Election of the Year
Peru’s Election Has Been the Most Hate Filled Election of the Year
Published by Pedro Moreno Vasquez June 3, 2016 10:29 am
On June 5, Peruvians will hit the polls to elect a new President. The second round runoff will be decided by two candidates, Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK). Both candidates qualified to the second round by obtaining forty percent (Keiko) and twenty percent (PPK) of the total vote.
Past Peruvian elections had been entangled in ferocious attacks. But this race was exceptional: Disqualification of candidates, confrontations, streets protests, defamation, insults, and a fiery antagonism among Peruvian voters. The 2016 presidential race will stand out as one of the most hate filled elections in Peruvian history.
The Final Race: Keiko Fujimori vs Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Keiko Fujimori, 41, first ran for president in 2011. Keiko lost against now President Ollanta Humala by a short margin. During Humala’s mandate, Keiko has continuously spoken out against “Humala’s incompetence”.
In 2015, Keiko Fujimori announced her candidacy with ‘Fuerza Popular’ Party. A Columbia University graduate, Keiko Fujimori has sponsored free market policies and a conservative agenda. Her political views are not too different from those of her father, now jailed former president Alberto Fujimori, who imposed neoliberal measures in Peru during his mandate.
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