Presidential candidates Pedro Castillo, Hernando de Soto, Keiko Fujimori and Yonhy Lescano were the most voted in the Peruvian elections held this Sunday in Peru, according to a ballot box poll published as soon as schools closed electoral, which registers a difference between them that does not exceed the margin of error.
The show, made by the company Ipsos and published by the channels América and Canal N of Peruvian television, and which will be the only one published tonight in the country, has a margin of error of +/- 3 %.
According to the data, Castell, from the far left and one of the surprises of the election campaign, would have obtained 16.1% of the votes, while Hernando de Soto and Keiko Fujimori, both from the right, would be equal to 11.9% of the votes. votes, followed by Yonhy Lescano (center left), with 11%.
With this advance, it is practically certain that Castell, from the Perú Lliure party, will pass in the second round of elections next June and it remains to be defined, with the official results in the next few hours, the rival that will face it.
From his native region of Cajamarca, Castell called for the “calm and tranquility of the town”, while his followers set off fireworks and danced in the streets amidst great commotion. .
“I ask for calm, I ask for calm from my people” because “it is true that there is a effervescence of people, but we must be respectful of official data,” he said in statements to America News.
Castell, a teacher and union leader, added that this “expression of the town” shows that Peruvians “feel identified with a person born from the same village.”
“If the results are confirmed, I want to thank enormously each and every one of Peru’s teachers,” the now-favorite of the election concluded.
In addition, the Ipsos ballot box poll revealed a 10.5% vote in favor of far-right candidate Rafael López Aliaga, 8.8% for left-wing Verónika Mendoza, 6.4% for exporter George Forsyth and of 5.8% for the industralist Caesar Acuña, between a total of 18 postulants to the presidency of Peru.
More than 25 million voters were called to vote in these general elections to elect the president, two vice presidents and the new Congress, but absenteeism has been evident on the day due to the danger of contagion by the Covid-19 in a new peak of the disease.