Peru: Veronika Mendoza Closes Campaign with Remarks in Quechua
Peru: Veronika Mendoza Closes Campaign with Remarks in Quechua
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Mendoza closed the evening with remarks in the indigenous language as she pulls ahead in polls.
| Photo: teleSUR
Published 7 April 2016
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Leftist candidate Veronika Mendoza ended the Peruvian campaign period tonight with a rally attended by thousands as she rises in the polls.
Tonight was the final night for candidates in Peru's upcoming election to campaign, and leftist Veronika Mendoza of the Broad Front party ended the evening in a surprising way.
Mendoza closed the rally with statements in Quechua, one of the main indigenous languages in Peru. The move was met with support from the thousands of attendees. She also promised to make women's issue a priority, according to teleSUR's Rael Mora, who was at the rally.
Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, has had the unwavering support of about a third of Peruvians the past two years, thanks in part to his public investments in rural areas and crackdown on leftist insurgents in the 1990s.
But with polls showing Fujimori short of the simple majority needed to win outright, the chance at tapping a well of hostility to Fujimori in a run-off has fueled a hotly-disputed contest for runner-up.
Mendoza is virtually tied for second place with former World Bank economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, though she edged up 1.2 percentage points in a new Datum poll.
Fujimori and Kuczynski were both recently implicated in the fallout from the Panama Papers leak.
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