The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori achieved enough advantage to be the next president of Peru by leading by 42,097 votes over the leftist Roberto Sánchez, who has denounced alleged fraud without evidence and has asked to annul the vote abroad.

Upon reaching 99.79% of the count of the second round of the presidential elections, Fujimori has 50.11% of the valid votes compared to 49.88% for Sánchez, with a narrow margin between the two of 42,097 votes that can no longer be reversed, since there are approximately 38,200 votes left to be counted for both contenders.

As of Tuesday night, 191 electoral records remained to be counted, 0.20% of the total of 92,766 polling stations that were installed in the vote held on June 7, and which contain on average about 200 votes for the candidates for each record.

Sánchez asks to cancel vote abroad

This result will not be final until the electoral juries rule on the request presented on Monday by Sánchez to annul the vote abroad, which if it occurs would reverse the results and give victory to him, who is the candidate with the most votes in the national territory.

If the votes of Peruvians abroad are eliminated, the percentages of the count are reversed and Sánchez obtains 50.11% of the valid votes, with an advantage of 39,292 ballots over Fujimori, who receives 49.88%.

The leader of the leftist party Together for Peru has argued that the vote abroad should be invalid because for this second round the digital transmission of results was eliminated, at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which forced the minutes to be sent to Lima to be scrutinized, without them having, according to the candidate, due custody.

He has even anticipated that he will not recognize Fujimori's government and will promote protests in the streets if the electoral authorities do not accept his request.

ONPE plans to announce results no later than mid-July

At the moment, the daughter and political heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), who ran for the Presidency of Peru for the fourth time after having lost in the second round of the three previous elections, has not come out to declare herself as a winner and has criticized that her rival seeks to ignore the will of the diaspora of Peruvians who reside outside the country.

The National Elections Jury (JNE), the highest electoral authority, plans to announce the results no later than mid-July.

If Fujimori's victory is confirmed, the leader of the Fujimori Popular Force party will begin a five-year term (2026-2031) on July 28, after a decade of political instability in which the country has had eight presidents, due to a succession of presidential dismissals promoted by Parliament.

It will also mean the return of Fujimorism to the Government of Peru, twenty-six years after Alberto Fujimori resigned by fax from Japan, after uncovering a gigantic corruption scandal involving his right-hand man, advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, who along with the former president was later convicted of crimes against humanity and corruption.