The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimorifrom the Fuerza Popular party, consolidated its first place in the presidential elections of Peru, with 16.88% votes valid, when 60% of the votes for this Sunday’s general elections have been counted, indicated the official count of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE).
The daughter and political heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), is followed by the far-right Rafael López Aliaga, from the Popular Renewal party, with 13.88% of the votes, and by the centrist Jorge Nieto, from the Good Government Party, with 12.50% of the votes.
If these results hold at the end of the scrutiny, Fujimori and López Aliaga will compete for the Presidency of Peru in a second round, on June 7.
The ONPE calculation specified that Fujimori has received, so far, 1,838,531 votes, while López Aliaga has 1,511,437, and Nieto reaches 1,361,296.
Following these three candidates appears the populist Ricardo Belmont, from the Obras party, with 9.8% and 1,082,166 votes, and the leftist Roberto Sánchez, from Together for Peru, with 8.5% and 932,811 votes.
This is the first time that Sánchez appears among the five candidates with the most votes in the official count, since a quick count offered by the Ipsos company this Monday gave him the main option of contesting the second electoral round with Fujimori, in a close dispute with López Aliaga and Nieto.
Another quick count carried out and disseminated this Sunday by the Datum company indicated that Fujimori and López Aliaga will compete in the second round.
If the projections are confirmed, it will be the fourth time in a row that the Fuerza Popular candidate will be in the second round, after having lost in that instance on the three previous occasions to Ollanta Humala (2011), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016) and Pedro Castillo (2021).
More than 27.3 million Peruvians were called on Sunday to elect their national authorities for the period 2026-2031, including the Presidency, through which eight leaders have passed in the last ten years, in a spiral of political crises.
The day was marked by problems in the distribution of electoral material in several districts of Lima, which caused delays in the start of voting and even the impediment of voting in 13 polling stations in the capital, which left 52,261 people without exercising their right, something that the electoral jury later ordered to be solved with the extension of voting until this Monday.
