Fujimori climbs, but Castillo remains favorite in voting intentions in Peru

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A new poll of voting intentions by Datum shows that right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has increased her support to 34%, against left-wing favorite Pedro Castillo, with 44% of voting intentions, for the second round of the presidential election in Peru on June 6th.

The drop in the percentage of undecided voters seems to have favored the rise of Fujimori, the Fuerza Popular candidate, who also enjoys strong support in the city of Lima, the most populous in the country, while Castillo holds the lead in votes from the country’s center and south regions.

Thus, the Datum poll showed an increase of 8 percentage points in favor of Fujimori, since the last survey on April 20th, and of 3 percentage points in favor of the Peru Libre candidate.

On the other hand, the percentage of blank or void voters dropped from 15% to 11%, although this percentage is still considering their options (40%), while undecided voters also dropped from 18% to 11%.

In the case of the vote in favor of the former teachers’ union leader Castillo, his voters are equally split (49%) between those who vote for him because they reject his rival and those who do so out of conviction.

However, 42% of the electorate says that they will have a government like Venezuela’s, compared to 48% who do not believe that he will impose a governmental model similar to that country.

With respect to the daughter of ex-president Alberto Fujimori (1990-200), 59% vote for her in rejection of Castillo, compared to 40% who do so out of conviction.

Likewise, 49% say that Fujimori will run an authoritarian government, while 39% do not believe this will be the case.

Voters in favor of Castillo are a majority in the center (65%), south (65%) and east (62%) of the country, while Fujimori’s voters are in Lima (50%) and the north (33%).

After a couple of weeks campaigning, Castillo invited Fujimori to a public debate this Saturday in the Andean city of Chota, but also announced that he has been diagnosed with a respiratory ailment in recent hours.

Castillo was the first of presidential candidates to be diagnosed with Covid-19 earlier this year, in the midst of the electoral campaign, and in recent days he made several visits with crowds of people.

The Datum survey was conducted with 1,200 people nationwide between April 27th and 29th, with a 95% reliability rate and a 2.8% error margin.

Source: efe