FILE PHOTO: People wave flags and hold placards during Peru's presidential candidate Yonhy Lescano of the Accion Popular party's campaign closing rally in Lima, Peru April 8, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian far-left candidate Pedro Castillo is set to win the Andean country's first-round presidential election, though he will face a run-off vote in June with an electorate fragmented after a year of political and economic crisis.
The 51-year-old union leader and primary school teacher, a shock winner after a late surge in the polls, had 16.2% of the vote with half the ballots tallied on the official count https://www.resultados.eleccionesgenerales2021.pe/EG2021/EleccionesPresidenciales/RePres/T. A fast count from Ipsos Peru showed him winning the race.
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