Lima – A comedian, an autocrat’s daughter and a businessman who likens himself to a cartoon pig — three rightwing candidates lead the polls ahead of Peru’s presidential vote on Sunday, but a crowded field leaves plenty of room for surprise.
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the polarizing late president Alberto Fujimori and a perennial candidate for the top job herself, led polls in the final days of the campaign.
But with a record 35 candidates in the running, the election is almost certain to go to a runoff round in June.
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