Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru’s presidential election, according to the final vote count released on Monday, bringing to an end a tally that stretched for more than three weeks after the June 7 runoff.
Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, secured 50.1% of the vote, finishing 49,641 votes ahead of left-wing rival Roberto Sánchez — a margin of just 0.27 percentage points.
The two candidates advanced to the runoff after finishing first and second in the April 12 general election, which featured 35 presidential hopefuls and reflected the country’s deep political fragmentation and prolonged institutional crisis.
Both rounds of voting were marked by unusually slow vote counts, razor-thin margins between the leading candidates, and allegations of electoral fraud, all of which were rejected by Peru’s electoral authorities.
Although the count has now been completed and published on the website of the National Office of Electoral Processes, the result will only become official once it is formally certified in the coming days.
