With 100% of the ballots counted, Peru’s presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, won the elections with 50.135% of the votes, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) announced this Monday afternoon (29), 22 days after the second round of elections in the country. His opponent, Roberto Sánchez, scored 49.865%.
Keiko, from the conservative Fuerza Popular party, received 9,233,396 votes, while Sánchez, leftist candidate for the Jutos por el Perú party, received 9,173,755 votes. The victory of the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori has yet to be officially declared by the National Electoral Juror (JNE).
The dispute between the candidates in the second round was extremely tight and polarized, reaching a tie in absolute numbers of votes. Keiko started ahead in the counting of this final stage of the elections, was overtaken by Sánchez, but later returned to the lead.
Since last Wednesday (24), it was already known that Fujimori would be the winner, when she reached a total of votes that could no longer be surpassed by her opponent.
Last week, Sánchez declared that he would not recognize the result of this second round. He has alleged vote manipulation and wants a recount. The party went to court with an appeal to annul votes registered abroad.
Keiko will assume the presidency replacing the current interim president, José María Balcázar Zelada, who has been in power for four months.
Peru is going through a long period of political instability and has had nine presidents in the last ten years.
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
