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Keiko Fujimori Declared Winner of Peru Presidential Runoff Election
Peru's National Jury of Elections certified Keiko Fujimori as the winner of the June 7 runoff on July 3 with 50.14 percent of the vote. She will take office on July 28 as the country's ninth president in ten years.
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Keiko Fujimori was declared the winner of Peru's presidential runoff election on July 3 by the National Jury of Elections. She received 9,223,000 votes, or 50.14 percent, compared with 9,173,000 votes, or 49.87 percent, for Roberto Sánchez. Fujimori, 51, defeated 33 other candidates in the April general election to reach the runoff.
She is scheduled to take office in late July on Peru's independence day and will become the country's ninth president in 10 years. Fujimori is the daughter of the late former President Alberto Fujimori, who was convicted in 2009 of human rights abuses and corruption. The U.S.
State Department congratulated Fujimori on her victory on July 1 and said it looks forward to deepening security, investment, and trade cooperation with the incoming administration. Fujimori posted on X thanking supporters and stating that a new stage begins with responsibility and humility. Roberto Sánchez alleged irregularities and fraud in the vote count but supplied no evidence.
He took his objections to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
