Peru's presidential candidate Veronika Mendoza of 'Frente Amplio' party gives a speech during an event to introduce her team, in Lima, March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
LIMA (Reuters) - A 35-year-old leftist presidential contender in Peru who is promising a new constitution to weaken the country's business elite jumped 5 percentage points in a poll and was seen as statistically tied at second with investor-favourite Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Veronika Mendoza, a lawmaker and psychologist by training, would win 17.3 percent of valid votes in the April 10 election, compared with Kuczynski's 18.6 percent, according to a mock voting exercise published Friday by local pollster Datum Internacional.
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