Peru's Fujimori seen winning presidential election next week: poll

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Sun May 29, 2016 12:34pm EDT

Peru's Fujimori seen winning presidential election next week: poll

Peruvian presidential contender Keiko Fujimori is seen beating rival Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in the June 5 run-off election, according to an Ipsos poll released on Sunday, consolidating the lead she had gained in recent weeks.

Fujimori, the 40-year-old daughter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori, was seen garnering 45.9 percent of votes, according to the poll published in local newspaper El Comercio.

Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former World Bank economist who narrowly moved onto the second-round election after coming in second to Fujimori ahead of a leftist rival, is seen getting 40.6 percent of votes.

The Ipsos survey of 1,815 people has a 2.3 point margin of error up or down and was taken between May 26-27. Some 13.5 percent of voters were still undecided or planned to cast a spoiled ballot.

Fujimori was seen winning 53.1 percent of valid votes, which does not include blank or spoiled votes, compared to Kuczynski's 46.9 percent.

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[SharonAnn]

1. Her father, Chile's Pinochet, and the Argentine Junta - totalitarians all.

I haven't seen anything on her positions or plans. Just the usual horse race stuff, who's up and who's down.