Datum poll is 61% to Castillo and 39% to Fujimori. Considering the blank/null votes and undecided, it’s 41% Castillo, 26% Fujimori, 15% Blank or Null and 18% Undecided.
The weirdest thing is that I only expected Ecuador to go left in 2021, I never had even considered Peru could move (and so radically!) to the left when they had so many right-wing options being sold as the ones with chances. Not even Veronika Mendoza appeared in some top 6 polls and she was sold as the leading candidate of the left.
Maybe Peru isn’t as anti-leftist as media makes us think, it’s just that people are pushed to think Lima represents all the country whenever conversations about Peru happen.
Now the complete opposite of what everyone imagined is a very likely possibility, with Ecuador going right and Peru left. That’s crazy.
And there’s still the Chilean elections later this year, after all this I won’t even dare to make predictions.
I think the Peruvian left got very lucky ending up in a runoff against Fujimori, whose name is still very toxic and associated with corrupt, authoritarian neoliberalism. There is definitely an element of the media ignoring indigenous voices, but a lot of voters also indicate that they simply dislike both candidates.
