Peru votes in tight presidential run-off in test of Latin America's rightward shift
Polls show the candidates in a statistical tie as voters weigh crime, inequality and mining policy in a runoff that could extend Latin America’s rightward shift.
- On Sunday, Peru faces a presidential runoff between leftist Roberto Sánchez and right-winger Keiko Fujimori, a rematch of the chaotic political cycle that began five years ago when President Pedro Castillo defeated Fujimori.
- Mining policy remains central to the debate as Cajamarca officials seek investment from seven projects worth over $16 billion, yet more than 2 million more Peruvians live in poverty today than a decade ago.
- Campaigning in a traditional hat, Sánchez promises to slash inequities and redistribute mining profits, resonating in rural Chota where voters remain focused on promises made by Castillo, jailed since 2021.
- Conversely, Fujimori's Popular Force party holds the largest congressional minority, giving investors reassurance; Leandro García, CEO of Buenaventura, said the new Congress will "guarantee some kind of peace."
- Investment in La Granja targets around 350,000 annual tons of copper by 2033, with FQM engaging early with communities to avoid environmental protests that shuttered a $10-billion project in Panama.
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The second round of Peru's presidential elections faces two visions of the country situated at two extremes, that of the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, 51, and that embodies the divisive legacy of her father, the autocrat Alberto Fujimori, and that of the 57-year-old leftist Roberto Sánchez, who claims the figure of former president Pedro Castillo, imprisoned for an attempted self-coup in 2022 and to whom the candidate has promised to pardon. Polls …
Photos of Peru's presidential election runoff
Peruvians are choosing between presidential candidates with starkly different views. Keiko Fujimori, a conservative and daughter of a disgraced former president, faces nationalist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez. Official results may take days.
With the polls very tight, the vote of residents abroad can be key to curbing the radical left’s project.
The Peruvians vote this Sunday to elect their ninth president in ten years, choosing between the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and the left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez, in a second round, marked by frustration with political chaos and unbridled crime in the country. Stable despite the instability: Peru goes to the polls this Sunday with stable economy after decade of political turbulence Context: Presence of fujimorism in electoral bodi…
Iran.- Peruvians turn to the polls today to elect a new president in a ballot between two candidates in the ideological antipodes in elections where the main concern of the voters is the wave of crime that plagues the Andean country. Roberto Burneo, President of the National Elections Jury, began at 7:00 a.m. the day where more than 27 million Peruvians are called to pay in this second round. "The electoral system is now ready for this election …
Peru's Knife-edge 2026 Runoff: Fujimori vs. Sanchez, Amid Delays, Heavy Security and a Dead-heat Race
More than 27 million Peruvians vote today in a tight presidential runoff between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez, marked by opening delays, a heavy security deployment and polls showing a statistical tie. Here is how the day is unfolding and when results are due.
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