Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori emerges as the likely winner of Peru’s presidential elections by obtaining 50.32% of the valid votes with 91.5% of the count, compared to the 49.67% registered by his rival in the second round, the leftist Roberto Sánchez.
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Fujimori is running for the presidency of Peru for the fourth time. Photo:AFP
When the count is already over half, the difference between the two candidates is 0.65 percentage points, with Fujimori obtaining a total of 8,689,389 votes, while Sánchez receives 8,575,759 votes.
Despite the advantage in the data reported by the National Office of Electoral Processes (Onpe), The projections of results carried out by the pollsters Ipsos and Datum based on a representative sample of polling stations show a technical tie, with a minimal advantage for Sánchez.
The sample prepared by the Ipsos company for the Transparencia Civil Association, with a margin of error of 1.9%, awarded a 50.3% to Sánchezagainst 49.7% for Fujimori.
The presidential candidate of Roberto Sánchez, from the Together for Peru party. Photo:AFP
Meanwhile, another projection with official minutes from the private company Datum Internacional, with a margin of error of 1%, indicated that Sánchez received 50.14% and Fujimori 49.86%.
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The votes counted so far belong mostly to the capital and other cities in the country, where Fujimori is the candidate with the most votes, while Sánchez concentrates his support in rural areas, whose votes are usually the last to be counted.
In the last two electoral appointments, Fujimori, who is running for the presidency of Peru for the fourth time, was left at the doors of the Government Palace by just 40,000 votes compared to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016) and Pedro Castillo (2021).
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More than 27.3 million Peruvians were called to vote. Photo:AFP
More than 27.3 million Peruvians were called to the polls to choose the option that will govern the country for the next five years (2026-2031)after a decade of political instability that has had eight presidents in ten years, the product of a series of presidential dismissals promoted by Parliament.
