MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Peru’ presidential election turns into a guessing game

Support for tail candidates Humala and Kuczynski doubles

With less than a month to Peru’s presidential election April 10, the tailing candidates have been advancing and the favourites have been loosing ground, according to the latest public opinion poll from Ipsps-Apoyo made public in the Lima media.

The leading candidate and former president Alejandro Toledo registered 26% support, down one percentage point from two months ago and Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned for-life former president Alberto Fujimori, lost three points and is down to 19% from 22%..

Lima’s former mayor Luis Castañeda also slid from 19% to 17%, while ultra nationalist Ollanta Humala climbed from 10% in January to 15% and business-darling and former Economy minister with Toledo, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski jumped from 5% to 9%.

“The fight is becoming particularly intense, highly competitive; even when Toledo retains the leading position he has stalled. I think he can make it to the run off but he can’t be that sure as he was a few months ago”, said Alfreto Torres, head of Ipsos-Apoyo.

Torres said that Humala and Kuczynski are soaring so “the last four weeks are going to be very intense and anything can happen”.

The Ipso-Apoyo poll was done at national level with 1.995 interviews, between March 5 and 11 with a 2% plus/minus margin error.

Last Sunday a poll from the Catholic University had Toledo with 26.6% vote intention followed by Keiko Fujimori with 19.3% and Castañeda, 17.3%. Humala figured with 15.5% and Kuczynski, 10.6%.