Peru Board Weighs Another Presidential Election Disqualification

Peru's electoral board may throw a presidential hopeful who has been climbing in polls out of the race, the second candidate in a week to face possible disqualification from elections in two months. Julio Guzman, a technocrat and self-dubbed "outsider" who jumped to second place in a recent poll, failed to fulfill a series of requirements when registering his party, the National Jury of Elections said Thursday. Last week, the board said it might bar wealthy former...

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