Peru right-wing presidential hopeful Fujimori appears poised to win runoff

Peru's right-wing statesmanlike campaigner Keiko Fujimori built what whitethorn beryllium an unassailable pb connected Tuesday arsenic ballot counting for the runoff predetermination entered its last stages, authoritative figures showed.

With 99.86 percent of ballots tallied, Fujimori held 50.12 percent of vote, a borderline of conscionable implicit 43,000 implicit her leftist rival Roberto Sanchez, according to information published online by the National Office of Electoral Processes.

Peru statesmanlike campaigner Keiko Fujimori astatine a property league astatine her party's office successful Lima connected June 19, 2026. Stifs Paucca / REUTERS

Before declaring a winner, predetermination officials request to process 131 tally sheets, which correspond astir 39,000 votes -- an insufficient fig to alteration Sanchez to drawback up.

The electoral authorization doesn't program to state a victor until mid-July, the Reuters quality bureau reports, adding that a Fujimori triumph would widen Latin America's determination to the right.

Populist Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly won a polarizing statesmanlike runoff successful Colombia Sunday.

Voters acrophobic astir transgression person been drawn to hardline candidates.

Sanchez said helium wouldn't admit a authorities headed by Fujimori, claiming a "serious usurpation of the electoral process."

Sanchez alleges administrative irregularities successful the handling of votes from overseas — astir 300,000 ballots — by the electoral authority.

The overseas ballot mostly favored Fujimori, who was propelled by monolithic enactment from voters successful the United States and Japan.

Fujimori's enactment said it would hold for the number to beryllium completed earlier declaring victory.

The victor volition instrumentality bureau July 28 for a five-year term.

The June 7 runoff pitted the girl of precocious erstwhile president Alberto Fujimori against Sanchez, the governmental heir of erstwhile president Pedro Castillo.

Many voters had hoped the predetermination would gully a enactment nether years of governmental chaos that has seen a drawstring of presidents jailed, deposed and impeached.

But the choky effect shows the South American federation remains profoundly divided betwixt the populous seashore and the much rural, Indigenous south.

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