Overview
- Official tallies show Keiko Fujimori with about 50.11–50.12% of the vote and a margin of roughly 43,000 votes after overseas ballots were processed, leaving fewer votes in dispute than her lead.
- Roberto Sánchez on Tuesday declared he will not recognise the result and filed challenges seeking annulment of many consular votes, alleging procedural irregularities tied to changes in how overseas tally sheets were handled.
- Peru’s electoral bodies — ONPE, the Special Electoral Juries and the National Jury of Elections (JNE) — are still adjudicating contested tally sheets and have not formally certified a winner, with authorities indicating the process may stretch into mid‑July.
- Overseas voting of some 300,000 ballots heavily favoured Fujimori and materially shifted the lead late in the count, a fact at the centre of Sánchez’s complaints about chain‑of‑custody and scanning procedures.
- The dispute revives deep political polarization in Peru, risks street mobilisation and legal wrangling ahead of the July 28 inauguration, and leaves the incoming president facing a fragmented Congress and fragile institutions.