Vote in Peru: Keiko Fujimori accepted Pedro Castillo’s challenge to debate in Chota province

The candidate Keiko Fujimori accepted the challenge launched by Pedro Castillo, his rival in the second round of the presidential election in Peru, to play in a debate in the northern province of Chota, the country of the left-wing leader.

The leader of the Popular Party of Fuerza, who must overcome the big difference that the polls reveal, took the opportunity to move the council. “I accept Pedro Castillo’s challenge to debate in Chota, but I have set the time and date: this Sunday at 8 p.m., so that the whole country can see us live and live,” said the right-wing candidate on Twitter.

After Fujimori asked Castillo to confirm his participation in the official debates which are not yet scheduled, the candidate replied that “he would not run away from Fujimori” and summoned his rival to debate “from any square in the city. , anywhere.

“I challenge Ms. Keiko Fujimori for the first debate to take place in Puña”Castillo said with reference to a population center located in Chota, a province in the northern region of Cajamarca.

Fujimori responded, in a video accompanying her Twitter post, that Castillo had challenged her to travel to her country “so he could play at home” and thought she “would not accept this. invitation”.

“But I want to tell you, Mr. Castillo, that I accept your proposal, and if you put the place, it’s up to me to put the time and date“, Held.

The candidate declared that she hoped “that all Peruvians could see live and listen” to the proposals, while stressing that the debate must be “organized by an absolutely neutral and objective entity”.

“See you on Sunday, don’t run, Pedro, don’t run», He concluded.

After occupying first and second place respectively in the general elections of April 11, Castillo and Fujimori will compete for the presidency of Peru in a second round called on June 6.

While both lead their proselytizing campaigns in cities in the interior of the country, the first polls indicate that the candidate of Peru Libre leads the preferences with a difference that varies between 20 and 12 points compared to his rival, according to the company in charge. of the study, well above the margin of error.

Castillo met De Soto

“We are not communists, we are not Chavistas, we are not terrorists,” Castillo said on Wednesday during an impromptu demonstration from the balcony of a house in Máncora, in northern Peru, where he is on a proselytizing tour. “We are workers, like any of you, we met in the streets and in this context we ask you for peace,” added the aspirant of the Free Peru party amid the cheers of his supporters. .

Castillo made his statements after having received the liberal economist and former candidate Hernando de Soto, who came fourth in the first round and has not yet defined who he will support in the June 6 election.

“I met with him to share my observations on the danger of the market closing,” as he suggests with the nationalization of companies, De Soto said in a statement on Twitter. “The only viable model is the free market, with mechanisms for its benefits to reach all Peruvians, what I call ‘popular capitalism’,” de Soto said.

De Soto, an internationally renowned economist who advised Libyan Muammar Gaddafi, Egyptian Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, obtained 11.6% of the vote, behind Castillo, Fujimori and ultra-conservative Rafael López Aliaga, who has already expressed his support for the candidate Fuerza Popular.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

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