Fujimori takes over half of votes in Peru polls

LIMA — Peru's right-wing Popular Force candidate Keiko Fujimori secured more than half of the valid votes in the presidential election, official results showed on Monday.

According to figures released by Peru's National Office of Electoral Processes, or ONPE, on its real-time vote-counting platform, Fujimori received 50.135 percent of the valid votes, while her rival, Roberto Sanchez of Together for Peru, got 49.865 percent.

The results translated to 9,223,396 votes for Keiko Fujimori and 9,173,755 votes for Roberto Sanchez. Fujimori is the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000, while Sanchez served as a minister under then-president Pedro Castillo from 2021 to 2022.

The figures gave the right-wing candidate a lead of 49,641 votes, positioning her for what would be her first presidential victory after three previous bids.

According to official data from the ONPE, all 92,766 tally sheets from the June 7 election had been processed by Monday.

Roberto Burneo, president of the National Jury of Elections, said in recent days that the electoral authority was expected to officially proclaim the results on Friday.

The 51-year-old Fujimori vowed on Monday to restore "order and hope" after defeating Sanchez by the slimmest of margins in an election dominated by surging crime.

"Each time we draw closer to starting on the path of order and hope for all Peruvians," Fujimori wrote on X after being proclaimed the winner of the June 7 election runoff.

Fujimori will take office on July 28 for a five-year term.

"We have the responsibility of listening to both sides. The doors for dialogue are open," she said, alluding to rival Sanchez and others on the left.

Sanchez had yet to react to the announcement of the results.

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