I'm John Batchler. This is the New World Report. I welcome my good colleague and friend,

Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. We march to the sound of voting. Peru. A surprise. Headline. Last hours. Leftist Sanchez in line for Peru runoff as vote count goes down to the wire.

Reuters subhead, this is Europe reporting.

Leftist Peruvian Congressman Roberto Sanchez shifted into second place in a presidential tally, heading down to the wire, rattling financial markets at the prospect of Mr. Sanchez facing Kiko Fujimura in the runoff.

That will be in early June.

Professor, a very good evening to you.

This has many faces, but the one that came to me as I read this headline was on Monday.

It was going to be two right-wing candidates facing off against each other.

The leftists were out of power for the moment after two stumbles, Castillo and Ballarte.

And now later on in the week, suddenly from behind comes a racehorse named Sanchez, who represents the left.

You have told me that Peru has had nine presidents in 10 years.

Is something funny here, Evan? Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John. Well, there's certainly a case to be made that there's some foul play

here. Certainly, the person who is expected to be

the number two going into the second round runoff, Rafael Lopez-Aaiga, is saying that there's

massive fraud involved. But in fairness, what you had also is in a situation where there's a lot of

frustration, a lot of ambiguity, you have a number of very

new voters, something like a third of the voters here, according to statistics, are coming

to vote for the first time, Generation Zeres. But you had 35 candidates, and in their run-up,

polls, which are notoriously imperfect in Peru, were showing,

you know, the two just over, over 10 percent, Keiko Fujimori and Rafael Lopez Aliyaga.

And then you had a cluster of about three others, maybe four others, who were just a few points

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