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= Pedro Pablo Kuczynski =

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski also known as PPK is the 66th Peruvian president and was elected on July 28th, 2016. He was born on October 3rd, 1938 in Lima, Peru to Madeleine Godard and Maxime Hans Kuczynski, German jews escaping Nazi Germany. Kuczynski had an average early life in Lima where he attended Markham College. He would later attend Rossall School in Lancashire, England and move again to attend Oxford University, where he would graduate with a degree in philosophy, economics, and politics. Kuczynski would start his career as a regional economist for multiple Central American countries at the world bank. Later he went back to Peru, working for the central bank of Peru. Kuczynski’s first campaign for president in 2011, ended as a failure. He ended up not making it into the run-off as the candidate for the Alianza por el Gran Cambio, known in English as the Alliance for the Great Change; this, however, didn’t discourage him. Kuczynski ran again in 2016 during the next election cycle. He ran this time with his own political party, Peruanos Por el Cambio, known in English as Peruvians for Change; a centre-right party. Winning only 21% of the popular vote he ended up winning against Keiko Fujimori gaining 50.12% of the vote to Fujimori’s 49.88%. For his campaign, he has promised to overhaul the police force, increase the minimum wage, implement tax breaks for small businesses and reduce the national sales tax from 18% to 15%. He aims to change Peru and Latin America for the better.

By: Aiden Soprych