Candidates for Peru's Congress are turning to everything from stripping to the buff to staging hunger strikes to win voters' attention, as a record 2,500 people vie for 120 seats on April 9.
Candidate Abelardo Gutierrez, a chronically overweight singer, has taken to parading through central Lima wearing only his underwear, with toenails painted the Peruvian national colours of red and white, winning him ample media coverage.
Not to be outdone, three candidates this week went paragliding off Lima's coast despite a lack of wind to caution against "jumping into the vacuum of populist politics."
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