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Socialist upstart Castillo stretches lead in Peru’s presidential race – poll

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL -Peruvian far-left candidate Pedro Castillo has stretched his lead in the country’s presidential election race, according to a poll released Sunday, with almost double the level of support of his opponent, far-right opponent Keiko Fujimori.

Castillo, who has pledged to draft a new constitution to give the state more control over the economy, was shown with 41.5% support in the poll by the Peruvian Studies Institute (IEP) published in newspaper La República.

Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, who supports keeping Peru’s free-market model, had 21 . . .

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