Elections in Peru: Roberto Sánchez turns on Keiko Fujimori with 93% of the votes counted

Peru closes voting in the second round of the presidential election.
With 93% of the ballots counted, Roberto Sánchez took the lead in the presidential race and is ahead of Keiko Fujimori in the number of votes in the second round of the presidential elections in Peru.
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According to the official count from the country's electoral body, after several hours with the count pointing to the conservative candidate winning the Presidency, the left-wing deputy turned the result around.
Sánchez has 50.008% of the votes, while Fujimori has 49.992%.
The conservative candidate was seen as the favorite in exit polls, but the deputy was expected to grow in the end, as he is strong in rural electoral areas, the last to be counted.
Due to the small difference, the result of the election remains undefined.
Keiko, daughter of the convicted former president Alberto Fujimori, came first in the first round, with 17.2% of valid votes. Sánchez won 12% of the valid votes in the first vote.
Montage shows candidates for the presidency of Peru Keiko Fujimori (right) and Roberto Sánchez on June 7, 2026, the day of voting in the second round
ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
The polling stations were closed at 5 pm local time (7 pm Brasília time), after a journey without major incidents, unlike the chaotic first round, marked by technical failures and allegations of fraud.
Fragmented first round
The country went to the polls amid a fragmented political scenario, with a record number of presidential candidates in the country, 35 in total.
Lucas Berti, political scientist, researcher on Peru at the South American Political Observatory and executive coordinator of the International Relations and Global South Group, states that, in fact, what happened in these elections in the country did not come from a "vacuum".
"It is a symptom of a process of institutional delegitimization that has been happening in recent years in the country. And this, to the extent that elected presidents are unable to govern", he stated.
9 presidents in 10 years
Peru has had 9 presidents in 10 years. To give you an idea, presidential terms in Peru are 5 years. In other words, in democratic stability, the country would only have two presidents in the same period. However, the reality was different and some leaders did not last even 5 days in office.
"In these years, the leadership that lasted the longest was that of Dina Boluarte, who remained in power for almost three years. But, after displeasing the opposition led by Keiko's Fujimorist coalition in Congress, he also fell", says Berti
In addition, it is worth highlighting article 113 of the Peruvian Constitution, which states that a president can be overthrown due to "permanent moral or physical incapacity" - and those who evaluate this diagnosis are the parliamentarians.
So, by For example, if Congress simply doesn't like a law that the president is trying to pass, they can activate that article, vote and, in less than 24 hours, overthrow a president who was elected by the majority of the population.
For political scientist Berti, this ease of the process demonstrates the institutional fragility at play in Peru. According to him, in recent years, the Fujimorist coalition, with an absolute majority in Congress, has been articulating powers, whether in the Legislature, in the courts or in the judicial system.
Since 2008, Alberto Fujimori's daughter has led this Fujimorist current by founding the Fuerza Popular party and trying to reach the Executive Power in Peru. But that doesn't happen, explains Berti.
"Keiko lost the last three elections (2011, 2016 and 2021) in the second round, by very tight margins. And now in this election, in 2026, he goes to the second round with a larger margin of votes. Some institutes give an advantage to Keiko, others to Sánchez.

Which indicates one thing: the election will be difficult and the result is still open", says Berti.
Democracy in crisis: 'chronic distrust'
The consequence of this struggle between the Executive and Legislative branches in the country resulted not only in a deep political crisis, but also in the way the population sees democracy.
"The credibility of institutions is very low if we look at the last 10 years. And distrust in Congress exceeds 90%, especially during the process that would result in the fall of former president Dina Boluarte, in 2025", explains Berti.
The most recent data from the Latinobarómetro survey, which measures the level of democracy in Latin American countries, shows that Peru faces one of the lowest levels of trust in institutions compared to other countries in Latin America. There is what can be classified as "chronic distrust".
According to the data, 90% of Peruvians have little or no confidence in the government and Congress; and only 10% say they are satisfied with democracy. Furthermore, the survey also noted another dangerous feeling: indifference to politics or the type of government regime.
"There is a great ease in creating parties in Peru and they are parties called 'little institutionalized'. These are parties that do not have effective roots in a society, which is not a party that enters the dispute for 20, 40 years. But rather parties that appear and disappear, just as there is no loyalty between the candidates and the parties, who also change coalitions easily", explains Berti.
This whole scenario reinforces in voters the logic that candidates often arrive at an election without a solid base or without a known party. This ends up generating a reading of distrust and, often, disbelief and fear of the ease with which these elected people can fall.
*With information from Thais Fascina, from GloboNews

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