Keiko Fujimori leads Peru's presidential runoff as the vote count concludes
Peru’s protracted presidential count has concluded with right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori narrowly ahead of leftist Roberto Sanchez, 50.13% to 49.86% — a margin of roughly 49,000 votes from the June 7 runoff, Al Jazeera reported . Sanchez has refused to accept the result and says he will file a legal challenge alleging irregularities, though he has not presented evidence; international monitors found no widespread fraud.
Peru’s National Jury of Elections is expected to formally announce a winner on July 3. A Fujimori win would hand the presidency to a polarizing figure — daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori — who has lost three previous bids and remains broadly unpopular. The razor-thin margin and a contested loser point to a fragile mandate in a country that has cycled through nine presidents in a decade.