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Peru poll a test of Latin America's rightward shift

Peruvians are voting in a presidential run-off election that will either continue Latin America's rightward shift or buck the trend with a ‌leftist candidate who has rattled markets.

Voters are choosing between conservative Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former hardline president Alberto Fujimori, who ‌was later jailed for human rights abuses, and leftist Roberto Sanchez, a cowboy-hat-wearing candidate emulating imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo's rural appeal.

Polls are showing the candidates in a statistical tie.

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