Peru may bar presidential hopeful from April elections
Thu Feb 4, 2016 4:24pm EST
Peru may bar presidential hopeful from April elections
LIMA
Peru's electoral board may throw a presidential hopeful who has been climbing in polls out of the race, the second candidate in a week to face possible disqualification from elections in two months.
Julio Guzman, a technocrat and self-dubbed "outsider" who jumped to second place in a recent poll, failed to fulfill a series of requirements when registering his party, the National Jury of Elections said Thursday.
Last week the board said it might bar wealthy former governor Cesar Acuna from elections if a university in Spain verifies plagiarism allegations against him. The university is still investigating.
Guzman and Acuna have been competing to find enough votes to come in second in elections on April 10, which would give them a shot at challenging front-runner Keiko Fujimori in a likely June run-off.
Both are running for president of the global mining powerhouse for the first time and have found growing support from Peruvians hoping to vote for someone new. All other leading candidates are well-known politicians who have sought the top job at least once before.
More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-election-guzman-idUSKCN0VD2SR?rpc=401
