Democracy sometimes disappoints. So it is in Peru. In a run-off ballot on June 3rd, Peruvians are due to choose a successor to their disgraced former president, Alberto Fujimori. They seem to find both the candidates—Alejandro Toledo, a centrist economist of Andean Indian origins, and Alan Garcia, a populist former president—equally unattractive. The opinion polls show neither man clearly ahead, and suggest that up to a fifth of voters are likely to abstain in disgust.
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