🤏 Fine margins in Peru

Marred by her father’s authoritarian legacy, Keiko Fujimori’s political career in Peru has been marked by a series of competitive presidential bids that fell just short of victory. Every time she gets close to winning, her polarizing surname awakens last-minute resistance. 

In 2011, it was moderate left-winger Ollanta Humala who edged Fujimori out in a 51-49 runoff — which would turn out to be her widest second-round defeat. In 2016 and 2021, the margins were even tighter: losing 50.1% to 49.9% on both occasions, first against pro-market economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and then versus rural left-wing teacher Pedro Castillo.

While several analysts took this as a sign that…

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