Fujimori and Sanchez Lead Peru's Presidential Runoff as Count Enters Final Stretch
Electoral officials said 99.76% of ballots are counted, with no candidate clearing a majority before the June 7 runoff.
- On Tuesday, Conservative Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez led Peru's presidential vote count with 99.76% of ballots tallied, with electoral authorities expecting final results by May 15.
- Despite fraud allegations from Lima Mayor Rafael Lopez Aliaga that delayed the count, European Union observers reported no concrete evidence of fraud, and the National Jury plans to announce results shortly.
- Sanchez holds a near 15,000-vote lead over Lopez Aliaga, while Fujimori maintains a comfortable 17.17% share of the vote, with ONPE noting roughly 50,000 ballots remain uncounted.
- Financial markets reacted nervously to Sanchez's potential runoff spot, with the Peruvian currency weakening against the dollar as Renta4 analyst Cesar Huiman noted, "There's going to be a contest between a right-wing candidate and a left-wing one."
- Scheduled for June 7, the runoff election faces Ipsos polling indicating high rejection for both candidates, with 48% of respondents opposing Fujimori and 43% rejecting Sanchez.
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Fujimori and Sanchez lead Peru's presidential runoff as count enters final stretch
Conservative Keiko Fujimori is leading the first round vote of Peru's presidential election with leftist Roberto Sanchez in second place as the count enters the final stretch. The final result is expected on May 15 after weeks of delays due to logistical failures and allegations of fraud.
Ultraconservative and former mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga is in third place so far, with 11.91% of the votes
Peru's Fujimori and Sanchez lead presidential runoff race as count enters final stretch
LIMA, May 12 - Conservative Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sanchez are leading the vote count in the final stretch of Peru's first-round April presidential election, with 99.76% of ballots tallied as of Tuesday, according to electoral authorities. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The presidential candidate of Juntos por Perú (left), Roberto Sánchez, will contest next June 7 the second round of the conservative Keiko Fujimori, having surpassed by little more than 14,400 ballots Roberto López Aliaga, with 99.66 percent of the vote counted, after the first round held on April 12. Fujimori, of Fuerza Popular, achieved 17 percent of the votes and Sánchez 12.
Peru's runoff to pit Fujimori's daughter against Castillo's political heir
Peru will hold a presidential runoff on 7 June pitting Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), against Roberto Sánchez, a congressman and self-proclaimed political heir of Pedro Castillo, the rural schoolteacher who reached the presidency in 2021 and is now serving an eleven-year, five-month sentence for the failed self-coup he attempted on 7 December 2022.
With 99.68% of the vote, the left-wing candidate surpasses the far-right Rafael López Aliaga by 14,474 votes, a margin that is considered irreversible.
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