15 days after the poll between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori in Peru, polls show absolutely different results

According to the survey published by the consultancy firm of the Peruvian Institute for Development and Research in Economics (Idice), the gap between Keiko Fujimori and the left-wing candidate, Pedro Castillo, is over: the candidate of the Force popular is at 45, 4% and teacher 42%.

The survey, carried out between May 18 and 19, also indicates that there is 12.6% between the undecided and those who will cancel their vote.

This job is the first at the national level to give Fujimori a three-point advantage.

But the stage remains open. Does another investigation, conducted by IEP, ensure that Castillo is more than ten points ahead of his rival, (44.8% to 34.4%). This poll reflects an 8.3% increase in support for Castillo in just one week. Fujimori, however, also made an improvement, adding 4.8 points in one week.

IEP explains that the growth of both candidates is due to a decrease in the percentage of blank or invalid votes, which goes from 23.6 to 12.8%. Similarly, the percentage of undecided is reduced from 7.8 to 5.1%.

The analyzes and projections are multiplying because the first simulated vote of Datum-Pulso Peru and El Comercio-Ipsos presents a tight picture.

Debates

The technical teams of the Peruvian presidential candidates, Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, will debate today to confront their proposals, which define two opposing models mainly in the economic sector.

The candidates have already seen each other during a debate in the city of Chota (Cajamarca), three weeks ago, and will meet next Sunday, seven days before the poll. Now it’s the turn of your consultants specializing in six areas.

The meeting, moderated by political analyst Juan de la Puente, starts at 19 (22 GMT) and each block will last around 25 minutes, with a presentation from each participant and a question from an external participant trained in the corresponding sector.

Government plans

Castillo, candidate of Peru Libre, took several weeks to confirm his team and this week finally published a government plan which, although it marks a certain distance from the Marxist and Leninist ideology presented by the Peru Libre party before the National Election Jury, remains firm on its proposal to call a referendum in order to install a constituent Assembly to modify the Magna Carta, approved in 1993.

The Nobel Prize for Literature was the first to raise the alarm about the castle’s intentions. Mario Vargas Llosa. Recognized anti-Fujimori and one of his country’s most respected opinions, the writer was very blunt: “A Castillo government would be a real disaster.” Deep in his argument, Vargas Llosa was forceful. “It would take no more to indicate that Pedro Castillo’s Peru will integrate the countries which, following the Mexican government, want to resuscitate the Puebla group and break with the Lima group. In other words, it will go back to that inaugurated by Commander Chávez in Venezuela, the socialism of the twenty-first century, which forced more than five million Venezuelans to emigrate to neighboring countries so as not to die of hunger, ”he said. -he explains. .

And for the distracted, He recalled that Castillo is on the extreme right. “It is against same-sex marriages, sex education in schools and abortion,” he said.

For its part, Fujimori also officially announced on Tuesday the technicians of Fuerza Popular, with several personalities linked to the government of his father, the autocrat Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).

“We don’t want to end wealth, we want to end poverty,” he said, referring to some of the left-wing candidate’s campaign slogans. And he added that in his technical team “there are several people who have given up their political jersey, and today they wear the jersey of Peru”, the symbol he chose and wears during his campaign for the second round.

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