La elección de Pedro Castillo: polarización, racismo y “terruqueo” en las elecciones presidenciales
The Election of Pedro Castillo. Polarization, Racism, and “Terruqueo” in the Presidential Elections

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the article is to analyze the electoral context of extreme political polarization that allowed the politically inexperienced Professor Pedro Castillo of the extreme left-wing party Peru Libre to win the Peruvian presidency against the extreme right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori. The atomization of the right-wing vote, on the one hand, and the preference of the popular sectors for someone close to them, as well as their dissatisfaction with the high death toll in the pandemic, and Fujimori’s disqualifying discourse of his adversary, accusing him of being a terrorist, explain the outcome. We used newspaper sources to review the electoral process and bibliographic sources to analyze the historical background.

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