Presidential candidates Pedro Castillo, Hernando de Soto, Keiko Fujimori and Yonhy Lescano were the most voted in the Peruvian elections held in Peru on Sunday, according to an exit poll published immediately after the polls closed, which shows a difference between not exceeding margin of error.
The sample, made by the company Ipsos and published by the channels América and Canal N of Peruvian television, and which will be the only one to be published tonight in the country, has a margin of error of +/- 3%.
According to the data, Castillo, on the far left and one of the surprises of the election campaign, would have obtained 16.1% of the vote, while Hernando de Soto and Keiko Fujimori, both on the right, would be equal to 11.9% of the vote, votes, followed by Yonhy Lescano (center left), with 11%.
With this advance, Castillo’s transition from the Peru Libre party to the second round of elections in June is practically certain and the rival that will face him remains to be defined, with the official results in the next few hours.
From his home region of Cajamarca, Castillo called for “the calm and quiet of the city,” while his followers fired fireworks and began dancing in the streets amid great excitement.
“I ask for calm, I ask for peace from my people” because “it is true that there is an effervescence of people, but we must be respectful of official data,” he said in statements to América Noticias.
Castillo, a teacher and union leader, added that this “expression of the people” shows that Peruvians “feel identified with a person who is born in the same city.”
“If the results are confirmed, I want to thank all the teachers in Peru,” the election favorite concluded now.
In addition, the Ipsos exit poll revealed a 10.5% vote in favor of far-right candidate Rafael López Aliaga, 8.8% for left-wing Verónika Mendoza, 6.4% for exporter George Forsyth and 5.8% for man César Acuña, among a total of 18 candidates for the presidency of Peru.
More than 25 million voters were called to vote in this general election for the election of the president, two vice presidents and the new Congress, but absenteeism was evident that day due to the danger of contagion by Covid-19 in a new peak. of the disease.