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Peruvians will pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo.
Polls in the runoff election are to open at 7am (local time) in most of the country’s 11,700 voting centres, with official results starting to arrive from 11:30pm.
The voting is happening days after Peru almost tripled its coronavirus death toll following a government review. Peru now has the world s worst coronavirus death rate per capita.
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Polls show the race in a statistical dead heat but with Ms Fujimori, who had earlier trailed Mr Castillo, pulling slightly ahead.
By Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun
LIMA/TACABAMBA, Peru -Peruvians began voting to pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo.
Polls in the runoff election began to open at 7 a.m. (1200 GMT), with long queues building up early at some centres in the capital Lima of people bundled up against the cold of the southern hemisphere late autumn.
Citizens have been invited to vote according to their numbers on their identity cards in a bid to avoid large crowds gathering.
Peruvians will pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo. The voting is happening days after Peru almost tripled its coronavirus death toll following a government review. Peru now has the world's worst coronavirus death rate per capita.
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