The right-wing presidential candidate for June 6 in Peru, Keiko Fujimori, brandished a stone on Sunday, May 30, in the midst of the presidential debate, accusing her left-wing opponent, Pedro Castillo, of a violent campaign.
Keiko Fujimori and his supporters denounce in Pedro Castillo a new Hugo Chavez, the former Venezuelan left-wing president, who according to them would lead the country to ruin and dictatorship.
"I come to propose a change,"
assured, in a white jacket, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, imprisoned, herself prosecuted for money laundering.
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The trade unionist teacher Pedro Castillo, wearing a hat typical of the north of the country, was not taken down by the accusations during this last presidential debate.
“I come with clean hands, I am a man of work, a man of faith, a man of hope. They say that we are going to take away your house, your property, it is a lie ”
, defended Castillo during this debate organized at the university of the Andean city of Arequipa, the second of Peru.
Pedro Castillo notably proposes in his radical left program a series of nationalizations and the end of certain imports to strengthen local industry.
But he denies any idea of a Chavist regime, and refused any rapprochement with the current Venezuelan president, the successor of Chavez Nicolas Maduro.
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Several thousand people demonstrated last Saturday in Peru against the candidate of the populist right Keiko Fujimori, to denounce the continuation in politics of the Fujimori clan. Pedro Castillo is given a large lead in the polls. The teacher won 18.92% of the vote against and 13.4% for Keiko Fujimori, in the first round of the presidential election on April 11, which had a record number of 18 candidates. Castillo is credited with 42% of the voting intentions, against 40% for Keiko Fujimori, according to an Ipsos poll published on Sunday, a week before the poll.
Peru, in recession due to the pandemic and politically unstable since 2016, will have to choose between two candidates located on the opposite side, between free market and nationalizations. The new president will take office on July 28, replacing interim president Francisco Sagasti.
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