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Fujimori and Sánchez Lead Peru Vote as Count Reaches 90%
Fujimori led with 16.95% and Sánchez with 11.99% as ballot counting dragged on and officials extended voting after delivery delays.
- On Wednesday, Keiko Fujimori and Roberto emerged as leading candidates in Peru's presidential election with 90% of ballots tallied, showing Fujimori at 16.95% and Sánchez at 11.99%.
- Logistical issues forced officials to extend voting into Monday, allowing more than 52,000 residents of Lima to cast ballots after delivery failures prevented thousands from voting earlier.
- Fujimori promised to crack down on crime, while Roberto pledged to pardon President Pedro Castillo if elected. Aliaga trailed narrowly in third place with 11.94% of votes.
- Since no candidate reached more than 50% of votes, the two candidates with the most votes will advance to a runoff election scheduled for June 7.
- The winner will become Peru's ninth president in 10 years, replacing interim leader José María Balcázar, who served only four months before being ousted amid corruption allegations.
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The candidate for the left Roberto Sánchez went up this Thursday for the second place in the partial ablution of the presidential elections in Peru, which puts him as a possible opponent of the lawmaker Keiko Fujimori in a second round. Rival is daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, convicted of human rights violations. With more than 89% of the recorded acts, Sánchez crossed a very close margin of the ultraconservative Rafael López Alia…
On Wednesday, candidates Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez led the vote count of Peru’s general elections by counting 90% of the votes after a change of trend that displaced former mayor Rafael López Aliaga from second place. Fujimori and Sánchez’s entry leads the presidential vote in Peru was first published in El Diario.
The presidential candidate of Juntos por el Perú, Roberto Sánchez, exceeded the former mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga in the number of valid votes obtained in the ballots, according to the results of the ONPE to 90.162%. With 83,673 minutes counted by the ONPE, Sánchez has 1’831,063 votes, equivalent to 11,991% of valid votes, while López Aliaga adds 1’822,750 votes, 11.933% of valid votes. In the course of Monday, the candidate of Juntos por…
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