Las Elecciones Peruanas

I arrived back from vacation on election day. You would never have known it, but that I talked politics with the duena of my hostel at breakfast and my taxi driver had propaganda on his windows. The polling stations closed at 4:00 pm, and then we started watching the returns.

A week later, and the election is still not decided. The race for 2nd place--the second spot for the run off--is still within 1 percentage point with 10% of the votes yet to be officially counted. On the one hand, this race affects me more, both in terms of exchange rate and because my office is so affected by Peruvian politics, than the one in Chile. The stakes are also much higher because the differences between the candidates are greater. But for some reason, I'm just not into it. None of the possible outcomes are as inspiring as Bachelet in Chile (even though one of the candidates in the running is also a woman), and maybe my coworkers have sucked up all my political energy. Or maybe it's just because I haven't watched enough political commercials.