Socialist Castillo close to victory in Peru as few votes remain to be counted
- 4 years ago
Peruvian right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, who is expected to lose a runoff election against a socialist rival, on Saturday said she would lead a protest to pressure for the annulment of votes that did not favor her.
Front-runner Pedro Castillo, a member of the left-wing Free Peru party,is close to being named the Andean country's next president as the count from the second round of voting earlier this month nears an end.
Castillo, an elementary school teacher who was raised in an impoverished village, was leading the count by 51,000 votes on Saturday morning, with around 59,000 votes remaining to be counted.
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