Lleft-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez and right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori pose during a presidential debate in Lima, Peru, last weekend. This was the only debate between Fujimori and Sanchez before the decisive election scheduled for Sunday. Photo by Paolo Aguilar/EPA
June 6 (UPI) -- Peru will choose its next president Sunday in a runoff election between Keiko Fujimori, leader of the right-wing Popular Force party, and Roberto Sánchez, candidate of the leftist coalition Together for Peru.
Nearly 28 million Peruvians are eligible to vote for what will be the country's ninth president in just 10 years, a figure that reflects Peru's deep institutional crisis and political fragmentation.
Recent polls show Sánchez and Fujimori in a statistical tie, meaning the final outcome could depend on undecided voters and the share of blank ballots.
For many observers, the central question is not only who will win the presidency, but whether Peru can break the cycle of political instability that has defined the past decade.
