Peru’s Diaspora Emerges as Tie-Breaker in Razor-Edge Presidential Race
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Sánchez overtakes Fujimori in Peru count with 95% tallied; overseas vote still to come
Leftist Roberto Sánchez moved ahead in the count of Peru's presidential runoff, in an election being decided vote by vote. With about 95% of the tally sheets processed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Sánchez had around 50.1% of the vote, against 49.9% for conservative Keiko Fujimori, a lead of some 41,000 ballots. The result, however, is not final: the votes of Peruvians abroad, historically favorable to the right, have yet…
“That’s Peru, we have to wait, we’re used to it,” says a saleswoman from a store in Barranco neighborhood in Lima. One day after the second presidential round took place, the eighth to be held in the country, this time between the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, and Roberto Sánchez, from Juntos for Peru, Peruvians already know that they will spend several days before knowing for sure who won the contest. The narrow margin of the result…
The second round of Peru's presidential elections is defined as a vote by vote. With 94.55% scrutinized, the 57-year-old leftist Roberto Sánchez has taken the lead in the official ONPE count with 50.0% of the votes, 21,000 votes more than the right-winger Keiko Fujimori, 51 years old. Fujimori, who was leading the result so far thanks to the votes of the capital, Lima, has lost ground tenth to tenth as the records of the rural areas favorable to…
Peru dawned that Monday with the result of the elections without a winner.Sánchez gathered 50.094% of the votes, compared to 49.906% of Fujimori, a difference of 33.100 votes, according to official data.
The official results maintain the uncertainty since none of the more than two thousand five hundred records from abroad has been counted by the ONPE
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