Polling stations opened Sunday in Peru, with some 25 million people set to cast their ballot for a new president amid the country’s deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic and a surge in new infections.
More than 1.6 million people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Peru to date, and more than 54,000 have died. With aspirants from the left to the right of the political spectrum vying for the top post in a country where personality tends to count for more than ideology, no one enjoys more than 10 percent of polled support.
Interior Minister Jose Elice said about 20,000 police would be deployed to ensure voters complied with anti-infection measures. Close behind Lescano, according to polls, are leftist anthropologist Veronika Mendoza, conservative economist Hernando de Soto, Forsyth and corruption-accused Keiko Fujimori — daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori.
Peru has been in recession since the second quarter of last year after a national lockdown shuttered businesses and crippled the all-important tourism sector.
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