Peru’s Chaotic Election — and Some Reasons for Hope
While the country's politics remain in poor shape, the June 7 runoff offers a new opportunity to rethink the future.
Almost a month has passed since Peru’s general election on April 12 and, extraordinarily, there is still no official result. That reflects the recent descent into incompetence of the electoral agency, which meant voting had to be extended into a second day in three districts of Lima. But incompetence is not fraud, contrary to the noisy but baseless claim of Rafael López Aliaga, the ultra-conservative candidate. There is little doubt that Peru is heading for a runoff on June 7 between Keiko Fujimori, a conservative running for the fourth time, and Roberto Sánchez of the far left. On...
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