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Peru's presidential runoff election too close to call

by Regina Garcia CanoFranklin Briceno
| June 7, 2021 10:27 AM

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president traded the lead Monday in a tight race for Peru’s presidency in a runoff election as the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter the Andean country.

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