Overview
- Preliminary ONPE tallies show an almost dead‑heat between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez, with figures around 50.1% for Fujimori and 49.9% for Sánchez in the partial count.
- The Jurado Nacional de Elecciones warned the definitive outcome may take up to 30 days because ONPE must transport and process remaining paper actas from decentralized offices, 109 of 126 ODPEs have finished transfers and 17 remain pending due to difficult access, weather or security conditions.
- Fuerza Popular is running a large party verification: Keiko Fujimori supervised the operation, the campaign says it deployed more than 90,000 personeros to collect paper actas and has reported 18 incidents of marked ballots for review.
- Roberto Sánchez has publicly expressed confidence in his camp’s parallel tallies, returned to congressional duties, said his party has its own personeros' data and left the door open to dialogue with Fujimori while urging calm during the count.
- Financial markets reacted to the uncertainty with a drop in the Lima stock index and a weaker sol, and investors are watching potential policy shifts and the future of Banco Central chief Julio Velarde as key risks if the narrow result changes expectations.