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Peru: Extreme left and authoritarian right candidates likely to go to the second round election

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The extreme left and an authoritarian right will most likely measure their forces in the second round of the Peruvian elections after the first official counts confirmed Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori as the candidates with the best chances to make it to the runoff.

Castillo, who has burst like a hurricane in this vote, leads by a wide margin both in the quick count estimates (18.1 %) and in the actual count, which with 11 % of the votes counted keeps him in first place with 15.8 % of the votes.

With these margins, Castillo, a . . .

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