Overview
- The presidential runoff is scheduled for Sunday, June 7, and polls show the two candidates essentially tied with about one in five voters still undecided and roughly 27 million people eligible to vote.
- Keiko Fujimori is running on a tough security message that invokes her father’s record of restoring order, while stressing continuity through Fuerza Popular and supporting measures critics say could roll back accountability.
- Roberto Sánchez casts himself as the candidate to restore democracy and represent poor, rural regions, positioning his campaign as a break from political elites and recent institutional instability.
- Public concern about crime strengthens security themes in the race: official figures show Lima recorded 23 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2025, a sharp rise from five years earlier.
- The campaign is dominated by the Fujimori family legacy and recent controversy over a July 2025 congressional amnesty for military personnel accused of wartime abuses, which survivors and rights groups say risks renewed impunity for past human‑rights violations.