- Peruvians in Utah participated in Peru’s presidential election Sunday, casting ballots at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center.
- The election featured conservative Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sanchez.
- Peruvians living abroad may vote in the nation’s presidential elections and some 6,700 Peruvians in Utah were eligible to cast ballots.
SALT LAKE CITY — They may be thousands of miles from their home country, but Peru is hardly forgotten for many Peruvians living in Utah.
Some have family members in the South American country who they still visit. Many follow current events in Peru and the nation’s shifting fortunes. Even if they’ve long lived in the United States, some still vote in Peruvian elections, and many from the expatriate community traveled Sunday to downtown Salt Lake City to cast ballots in the nation’s hotly contested presidential vote.
“There’s a lot of interest in voting because the two candidates are opposites,” said Czibor Chicata-Sutmöller, who, as general consul of the Peruvian Consulate in Salt Lake City, was helping oversee balloting at a ballroom of the Hilton Salt Lake City Center…