Would someone be kind enough to remove an entry above? The 'endorsement' of Pedro Castillo by Rafael López Aliaga is not quite the case https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-16/peru-would-be-a-dicatorship-under-castillo-lopez-aliaga-warns

I'm a missing something or is this the dream matchup for Castillo and Free Peru? They will get a democratic judgment on Fujimorism. And while there are alot of passionate Fujimorists - it is now where near a majority and most in Peru don't want to return to Fujimorism even if the other option is far left socialists.

Fujimori starting to narrow the gap https://rpp.pe/politica/elecciones/elecciones-2021-pedro-castillo-lidera-intencion-de-voto-pero-diferencia-con-keiko-fujimori-se-acorta-a-cinco-puntos-segun-datum-noticia-1335544 Could be a post-debate effect. Most of you may recall the same trendline benefiting Ecuador's Lasso post-debate, who was even further behind. Could we see a repeat here?

I don't think so, this is a bit different. Lasso was not the offspring of essentially their countries Pinochet

I think Fujimori has a good chance at the presidency but Castillo being a populist could easily get some votes.

Also let's not forget that in the 2016 Peruvian Elections Keiko Fujimori got 49.88% going against her opponent which was way more moderate than this one so many Fujimori supporters from 2016 will vote for her in 2021. And in 2016 polls showed Kuczynski support as higher than 40%, and while Fujimori is also underperforming her poll numbers her loosing margins are a lot more narrower so I wouldn't be surprised if Fujimori got a lot of the undecided vote.

This Sunday the 23rd in Peru will feature a live televised debate of philosophies between select members of Fujimori's Popular Force party and Castillo's Free Peru party https://larepublica.pe/elecciones/2021/05/22/equipos-de-peru-libre-y-fuerza-popular-definidos-para-el-debate-tecnico-pltc/?ref=lre. Members of the debating teams on each side are divided up to debate seven categories, which are - reform of the state; economic recovery and poverty reduction; health and management of the pandemic; infrastructure, regional development and decentralization; citizen security, and the environment. The individuals selected are mainly politicians (mayors, proposed vice presidents, et al.) and technocrats (development bank presidents, noted lawyers, et al.). This is a marvelous, fascinating rarely-practiced concept - unfettered free and open discourse of diametrically opposing ideas on live TV separated by categories tag-teamed by representatives of each party (instead of the party's leader and candidate). Viewers get to hear unfiltered contrary thoughts in a widened tableaux. This is quite welcome.

Sunday, May 30 is an important day. We will we see a final debate between the two candidates. It is also the last day pollsters are allowed to present poll results, in accordance with Organic Law on Elections No. 26859 https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/440998/Ley_Organica_de_Elecciones__Ley_N_26859.pdf . Expect a small avalanche of final polls tomorrow.

Exit polls will be released on Peruvian TV channels at 7pm (Peru Time) on the dot (7pm Central Time; 8pm Eastern Time). Lot of excitement and anticipation there. ONPE will announce preliminary results at 11:30pm (12:30pm EST).

This is coming down to the wire and I'm not sure we can gather anything from the polls except that it'll be close.

Exit poll results: Fujimori 50.3% Castillo 49.7% https://www.tvperu.gob.pe/play and https://panamericana.pe/

Que mordedor de uñas.

The anticipation is expected to last until Wednesday https://larepublica.pe/elecciones/2021/06/06/resultados-onpe-elecciones-2021-segunda-vuelta-en-vivo-resultados-oficiales-ultimo-minuto-keiko-fujimori-pedro-castillo-porcentaje-conteo-de-votos-a-boca-de-urna-flash-electoral-pltc/?ref=lre - rural votes today, returns from Peruvians abroad "between Tuesday and Wednesday."

The anticipation is expected to last until Wednesday https://larepublica.pe/elecciones/2021/06/06/resultados-onpe-elecciones-2021-segunda-vuelta-en-vivo-resultados-oficiales-ultimo-minuto-keiko-fujimori-pedro-castillo-porcentaje-conteo-de-votos-a-boca-de-urna-flash-electoral-pltc/?ref=lre - rural votes today, returns from Peruvians abroad "between Tuesday and Wednesday." Peruvians abroad should favor Keiko right? Will that be enough to pull her back in the lead?

I would think they would favor Keiko for economic reasons. Maybe there are some who fled during the Alberto Fujimori years and wouldn't like her? My Peruvian history knowledge is limited. 20% of the expat vote is in and Fujimori leads 64-36 (35K to 20K). Don't know how many raw votes this will end up being, though.

Maybe Keiko will become the next Guaido or Añez.

Maybe Keiko will become the next Guaido or Añez. Honestly, in a race this close, I can see both of them claiming victory. Both sides have already claim vote fraud. Claiming vote fraud its quite trendy now whether you are from America, Israel, or even South America.

To be fair, Castillo has mostly stuck to "Let's count every vote". Keiko legit has no leg to stand on claiming voter fraud, of course this marxist that has like no power rigged an election lol

More on the diaspora vote. Returns are being counted in the US (41 percent so far) and Fujimor1 picked up a huge 30,631, which represents 78% support v 22% for Castillo https://www.resultadossep.eleccionesgenerales2021.pe/SEP2021/EleccionesPresidenciales/RePres/E/920000/921300. Comparable percentages are being recorded elsewhere, as counting is continuing in Europe, Asia and the rest of Latin America (Spain and Italy just opened, France not yet).

Any ideas how many votes are outstanding both in the country and abroad?

The site lists the number of registered voters in the country and abroad, so I guess you could extrapolate based on current turnout figures. I don't know how accurate that would be, though.

All expat voting has been counted. Still 5% of the vote in Cusco to be counted, as well as a smattering of Junin & Loreto votes.

Wildest election I’ve watched live

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