Fujimori ahead of Castillo but in a technical tie, according to the exit poll

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to an exit poll, right-wing Keiko Fujimori was ahead of leftist Pedro Castillo in the Peruvian presidential elections this Sunday, according to an exit poll that does not yet allow declaring her as the winner of the elections since her narrow lead is within the poll’s margin of error.

According to the study carried out by the pollster Ipsos for América Televisión channel, which has a margin of error of 3%, Fujimori agglutinated 50.3% of the valid votes against Castillo’s 49.7%.

The definition of the winner will only be possible in the following days when the official vote count is considerably advanced, the first reports of which will begin to be released shortly before midnight.

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