Leftist teacher holds razor-thin lead in Peru presidential election
by Dan Collyns in Lima from World news | The Guardian on (#5JS07)
Pedro Castillo is about 0.2% ahead of his far-right opponent, Keiko Fujimori, with more than 94% of the vote counted
The scion of a jailed autocrat and the son of illiterate peasant farmers are fighting vote by vote for the presidency of Peru, in an election which has thrown into sharp relief the Andean country's deep fault lines of class and geography.
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