Peruvian presidential candidate Napoleon Becerra, leader of the leftist Workers and Entrepreneurs Party of Peru, on Sunday took a sharp left turn on infrastructure – an issue that has bedeviled both candidates and elected officials alike in the rugged and politically turbulent Andean country for generations – so far left in fact that it’s safe to say the turn will be fatal to his presidential ambitions.
Well technically it was Becerra’s chauffeur, Carlos Enrique Peñaloza Salazar, whose sudden swerve on a key section of the national road network sent the campaign’s leadership into a ditch and killed any chance Beccera had in the race, as well as the 61 year-old Becerra himself, Inforegion reports.
Well technically Beccera was going to lose anyway as, according to the AP, he was polling at 1 percent in the 36 candidate field. It’s not clear how many of the other 35 will show up at Beccera’s funeral to try to consolidate the field from the mourners. Probably at least like three, right?