Overview
- Peru’s electoral body ONPE published final results showing Keiko Fujimori with 50.13% of the vote and Roberto Sanchez with 49.86%, a margin of roughly 50,000 votes out of about 18 million cast.
- Sanchez has publicly contested the outcome, asked for overseas ballots to be annulled and signaled he may not recognize the result, setting up likely court challenges and political friction.
- A presidential handover is scheduled for July 28, when interim president José Maria Balcazar is due to transfer power to the incoming administration.
- Fujimori’s win marks the return of the fujimorismo movement more than two decades after her father Alberto Fujimori’s rule and follows her three prior presidential bids and a yearlong pretrial detention in an Odebrecht-related probe.
- Analysts warn the certified result deepens national polarization and could affect security policy, accountability for past abuses and investor confidence in a country that has had eight presidents since 2016.