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Socialist Candidate Labels Election Runoff 'Rich Versus Poor'

PERU
  • PEN retreated yesterday as the realisation set in of the uncertain two months ahead before the second-round presidential runoff.
  • Peruvian socialist Pedro Castillo, the shock winner of Sunday's presidential election first round, has laid down an early marker.
    • "This is a battle between the rich and the poor, the struggle between the ... master and the slave," Castillo told reporters from Peru's north in comments broadcast on local TV channels.

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