Suffragio reports on the state of the Peruvian presidential elections which are now underway. At least a half dozen candidates are running, none is expected to get a majority on the first ballot.
The polls indicate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president and current prison inmate Alberto Fujimori, is expected to gain the most first-round votes. She will face a run-off against the second greatest vote-getter, about whose identity there is less certainty.
Regardless of who wins the run-off, author Kevin Lees expects Peru's policies to remain moderate and pro-business as those policies have served most Peruvians well. The left fears Fujimori, if elected, might pardon her father and bring his cronies back into government, things her supporters probably favor.
