Overview
- The June 7 runoff left the race effectively tied with roughly 96% of ballots counted and Roberto Sánchez holding a narrow lead of about 50.055% to Keiko Fujimori’s 49.945%, a gap near 20,000 votes.
- Election authorities say the remaining work includes physically transporting and examining overseas ballots and roughly 1,555 challenged tallies that together represent hundreds of thousands of votes, and the count could take from two weeks to a month to complete.
- Ballots cast abroad have largely favored Fujimori and have swung parts of the partial count, producing sharp intraday moves in Peruvian markets where the main stock index and major Peruvian shares jumped during the reporting shifts.
- Both campaigns have publicly urged patience, observers described voting as generally calm and orderly, and neither side has made credible allegations of systemic fraud as officials continue the manual review.
- Whoever wins will confront a fragmented Congress and urgent problems on crime and the mining-dependent economy, and prolonged uncertainty risks delaying investment decisions and complicating governance for the next president.