Peru 2016

Opinion polls showed Keiko Fujimori as the favorite for over two years before voters went to the polls. The 2016 election came to be seen as a referendum on the government of her father, former President Alberto Fujimori, whose autocratic government crushed guerrilla insurgencies and restored a market economy.

However, Fujimori was eventually jailed for corruption and authorizing death squads. As the election drew nearer, a strong anti-Fujimori segment developed which rallied around the runoff challenger in Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the investor favorite and longtime technocrat in Peruvian government.

Most analysts believe that the fierce opposition to a government led by the daughter of Alberto Fujimori is what propelled Kuczynski to victory in the second round, as opposed to supporting for his policies.