Business Recorder - World https://www.brecorder.com/ Business Recorder en-Us Copyright 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:40:10 +0500 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:40:10 +0500 60 Nationalist leads poll ahead of Peru presidential vote https://www.brecorder.com/news/8960/nationalist-leads-poll-ahead-of-peru-presidential-vote <p class="MsoPlainText"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/Ollanta-Humala-400.jpg" width="400" height="327" />LIMA: Peru's presidential election appeared up in the air Sunday two weeks ahead of the vote, with a new survey showing nationalist Ollanta Humala topping Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a disgraced former president. Humala, who is seen as close to leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, led the CPI survey with 21.2-percent support. The lead was a first for him, yet nowhere near the 50-percent-plus-one support needed in the April 10 election to avoid a runoff, and with many undecided. Second place in the poll with 19 percent was Fujimori, who is promising to defeat high crime rates. She was trailed by former president Alejandro Toledo, an economist by training, who was Peru's first elected indigenous president, with 18.6 percent. They were followed by conservative Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, with 16.1 percent, and former Lima mayor Luis Castaneda, with 15.5 percent. President Alan Garcia, a one-time leftist who moved to the centre in his second term in office, is leaving after presiding over one of Latin America's best runs of economic growth in recent years. Yet adding to the anything-could-happen uncertainty in the presidential race, fully 27 percent of voters were still undecided, pollsters CPI found. That large number of voters will likely decide who wins and whether, as is widely expected, the top two vote-getters square off in a runoff. Despite worries in some quarters that he could take radical action like Chavez's expropriations, Humala insisted that "there would not be tumult" in his potential government.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">"We are a responsible team, ready to govern and we want the best for the country," said Humala, who is popular especially among the Andean country's poorest. Fujimori, a divisive figure due to her father's controversial presidency, did not agree.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">"His plans show that he has not changed his radical ideas which would be a big step backward for our country," she said, adding: "I am ready to defeat him." Her father, Alberto Fujimori, was Peru's president from 1990 to 2000. Born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, he fled to Japan in the midst of a massive corruption scandal, and Lima spent years unsuccessfully trying to convince Tokyo to extradite him. Chile, where Fujimori was arrested while travelling, extradited him to Peru in 2007, and in 2009 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><Center /><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011</b></i></center></p> LIMA: Peru's presidential election appeared up in the air Sunday two weeks ahead of the vote, with a new survey showing nationalist Ollanta Humala topping Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a disgraced former president. Humala, who is seen as close to leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, led the CPI survey with 21.2-percent support. The lead was a first for him, yet nowhere near the 50-percent-plus-one support needed in the April 10 election to avoid a runoff, and with many undecided. Second place in the poll with 19 percent was Fujimori, who is promising to defeat high crime rates. She was trailed by former president Alejandro Toledo, an economist by training, who was Peru's first elected indigenous president, with 18.6 percent. They were followed by conservative Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, with 16.1 percent, and former Lima mayor Luis Castaneda, with 15.5 percent. President Alan Garcia, a one-time leftist who moved to the centre in his second term in office, is leaving after presiding over one of Latin America's best runs of economic growth in recent years. Yet adding to the anything-could-happen uncertainty in the presidential race, fully 27 percent of voters were still undecided, pollsters CPI found. That large number of voters will likely decide who wins and whether, as is widely expected, the top two vote-getters square off in a runoff. Despite worries in some quarters that he could take radical action like Chavez's expropriations, Humala insisted that "there would not be tumult" in his potential government.

"We are a responsible team, ready to govern and we want the best for the country," said Humala, who is popular especially among the Andean country's poorest. Fujimori, a divisive figure due to her father's controversial presidency, did not agree.

"His plans show that he has not changed his radical ideas which would be a big step backward for our country," she said, adding: "I am ready to defeat him." Her father, Alberto Fujimori, was Peru's president from 1990 to 2000. Born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, he fled to Japan in the midst of a massive corruption scandal, and Lima spent years unsuccessfully trying to convince Tokyo to extradite him. Chile, where Fujimori was arrested while travelling, extradited him to Peru in 2007, and in 2009 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011

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