Peru's presidential candidate Pedro Castillo in Tacobamba on Sunday.Francisco Vigo / EFE
Another Peru spoke up on Sunday at the first round of the presidential election â a Peru that is not made up of sophisticated capital dwellers hooked on Twitter, and one that was getting very little attention during the campaign.
Yet this other Peru has managed to push a long-shot candidate to the top of the presidential race: the radical left-wing schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo was the most-voted contender on Sunday with 18.1% of the votes, according to an early quick count by a polling firm whose results were released in the early hours of Monday.