Just one month before the presidential elections in Peru, a new public opinion study shows a highly fragmented political scene but with a clear protagonist at the top of electoral preferences. The last national electoral simulation carried out by the consultancy firm Ipsos places the leader of Popular Renewal, Rafael López Aliaga, as the candidate with the most support for the first round.
According to the results of the study released by Perú21, López Aliaga leads the intention to vote with 11% support, which in the national simulation is equivalent to 17.2% of valid votes, thus consolidating himself as the best positioned candidate in the presidential race. In second place is Keiko Fujimori, candidate of the Popular Force party, who has a 10% intention to vote, ranking behind the leader of Popular Renewal but still among the group of candidates with the greatest chances of advancing
the electoral process.
Beyond the first two positions, the Peruvian electoral landscape shows a strong dispersion of the vote. According to the survey, no other candidate exceeds 9% of valid votes, which confirms the high level of fragmentation of the country's political system and reinforces López Aliaga's position as one of the main references for the political change that part of the electorate
