Pollster vote counts show Kuczynski tops Peru election

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Pollster vote counts show Kuczynski tops Peru election

By AFP 36 mins ago .

Presidential candidate for the "Peruanos por el Kambio" party Pedro Pablo Kuczynski - an ex-prime minister and Wall Street banker who was second in the last opinion polls at a polling station in Lima on June 5, 2016

Martin Bernetti, AFP

Vote counts by two major pollsters indicated former banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was leading Sunday's presidential election.

A count by Ipsos gave Kuczynski 50.5 percent of the vote against 49.5 for his populist rival Keiko Fujimori. Another pollster, GfK, gave him 50.8 percent against 49.2 for Fujimori.



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[sofa king]

1. Yeah, but it's what Diebold says that counts.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Wikipedia profile on what appears to be Peru's new President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (born October 3, 1938), better known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian public administrator, economist politician and Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006.

Kuczynski worked in the United States before entering Peruvian politics.[1] He held positions at both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund before being designated as general manager of Peru's Central Reserve Bank. He later served as Minister of Energy and Mines in the early 1980s under President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and as Minister of Economy and Finance and Prime Minister under President Alejandro Toledo in the 2000s.[2]

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Early life and career before politics[edit]

Kuczynski was born in Iquitos, Peru, the son of Madeleine Godard, who was of Swiss-French descent, and Polish-Jewish immigrant Maxime Hans Kuczynski, who was born near Poznań, and was one of the earliest public health leaders in Peru.[4][5][6] He received his early education at Markham College in Lima, Peru, and Rossall School in Lancashire, England. He won a foundation scholarship to study at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics in 1960. Later, he received the John Parker Compton fellowship to study public affairs at Princeton University in the United States, where he received a master's degree in 1961. He began his career at the World Bank in 1961 as a regional economist for six countries in Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.[7]

In 1967, Kuczynski returned to Peru to work at Peru's central bank during the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. Kuczynski went into exile in the United States in 1969 due to political persecution after Belaunde Terry's government fell to the military dictatorship of General Juan Velasco Alvarado in a coup d'etat. Kuczynski then joined the World Bank as the chief economist managing the northern countries of Latin America, moving on to become Chief of Policy Planning. From 1973 to 1975, he was a partner of Kuhn Loeb and Co., the international investment bank headquartered in New York City. In 1975, he returned to Washington, D.C to become chief economist for the International Finance Corporation (the private finance arm of the World Bank). Subsequently, he was appointed President of Halco Mining in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an international consortium mining company with operations in West Africa.

From 1983 to 1992, he was co-chairman of First Boston in New York City, an international investment bank. In 1992, he founded, with six other partners, the Latin American Enterprise Fund (LAEF) in Miami, Florida, a private equity firm that focused on investments in Mexico, Central and South America. The institutional investors in LAEF included more than 15 of the world's largest university endowments, foundations, and pension funds.

Kuczynski has been a director of various companies in Peru and elsewhere. Registered in the state of Florida, he co-owns personal savings vehicle Westfield Capital and is an officer of office-rental partnership South Bayshore Properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Pablo_Kuczynski


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Kuczynskji playing transverse flute for his audience.



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[David__77]

3. Sometimes the "right-winger" will be more progressive than the candidate to his or her left.

I think that Alberto Fujimori was positioned as to the left of his opponent during his first election, for instance.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Kuczynski ahead with 50.8%, after 78% counted, and pulling ahead

Peru’s former prime minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has a narrow lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former authoritarian leader, in the country’s presidential election, partial results show.

With 78% of all votes counted early on Monday, Kuczynski – known in Peru by his initials PPK – had 50.8% support and Fujimori 49.2%.
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“It’s clear that PPK won,” said Alfredo Torres, the director of Ipsos in Peru. “The gap is no longer narrowing but widening.”

Final results in what appears to be Peru’s closest election in at least three decades are expected later on Monday.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/pedro-pablo-kuczynski-narrow-lead-peru-presidential-election