With 100% of the votes counted in Peru, Keiko Fujimori has 50.135% of the votes and is the virtual president-elect; result needs to be made official

Elections in Peru: Keiko Fujimori achieves an irreversible advantage and must be elected.
With 100% of the ballots counted, the right-wing candidate for president of Peru Keiko Fujimori has the majority of votes in the second round of elections and is the virtual president-elect of the country.
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Fujimori appears with 9,223,396 votes, or 50.135%, against 9,137,755 votes from her competitor, left-wing deputy Roberto Sánchez, or 49.865% of the votes.
➡The vote took place on June 7th. The counting of votes showed a scenario of strong polarization in the country, with only 49,641 votes separating the two candidates.
The National Electoral Juror, the country's highest election body, still needs to make the result official to declare Keiko the winner, which should happen by next Friday (3).
Keiko Fujimori gives a speech in Lima, on June 24, 2026
Angela Ponce/Reuters
Last Wednesday, when she achieved an irreversible vote advantage in the count, Keiko made a speech as the de facto winner of the election, but without claiming victory. She promised to bring the country back together.
"We are aware that Peru is divided, that it is practically split in half", said Fujimori in front of reporters in Lima.
The Peruvian press claims that Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, should be declared the new president of Peru, despite her opponent Sánchez not recognizing the result (read more below). The right-wing will replace the current president, José María Balcázar Zelada, left-wing, who took power on an interim basis just four months ago.
Zelada replaced former president José Jeri, who was also in office for just four months and was removed by Congress for misconduct after it came to light that he participated in undisclosed meetings with Chinese businesspeople. His predecessor, Dina Boluarte, was also removed due to corruption scandals.
Boluarte was also interim and had replaced former president Pedro Castillo, who was arrested after dissolving Congress and declaring a state of exception, in a maneuver to try to circumvent an impeachment process.
The crises were just the latest involving presidents of Peru, which has been experiencing one of the worst periods of political instability in its history in the last decade. In the last eight years alone, the Andean country has had eight presidents.
Peru's left-wing presidential candidate, Roberto Sánchez, uses a megaphone to address his supporters during a protest
REUTERS/Alessandro Cinque
Recount
On Tuesday (23), Sánchez alleged fraud in the elections and called on his supporters for new protest marches on Saturday (27). The leftist also said that he will ask for a recount.
Roberto Sánchez, from the Juntos por el Perú party, led the count for days, but Keiko Fujimori, from Fuerza Popular, came ahead again due to the votes of Peruvian citizens abroad.
On Monday (22), the left-wing candidate presented a new appeal to annul the votes of Peruvians residing outside the country.
Sánchez alleges alleged administrative irregularities and problems in the management of voting ballots by the electoral body. in the case held abroad. Lawyers specializing in electoral law, interviewed by the local newspaper El Comercio, state that the request has no legal basis and only serves to delay the official proclamation of the results.
Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez before a televised debate on May 31 in Lima, on the eve of the second round of presidential elections, scheduled for June 7.
Reuters/Alessandro Cinque

Source: G1