Peru Presidential Race Too Close to Call as Sanchez Holds razor-thin 4,300-vote Lead Over Fujimori With 94% In
With 94 percent of voting centers reporting and nearly 18 million votes cast, leftist candidate Roberto Sanchez leads conservative Keiko Fujimori by fewer than 4,300 votes in Peru's presidential runoff.
France 24Leftist candidate Roberto Sanchez overtook conservative Keiko Fujimori to take the lead in Peru's presidential runoff on Monday. With 94 percent of voting centers reporting and nearly 18 million votes cast, fewer than 4,300 votes separate the two candidates. The race remains too close to call.
Sanchez said Monday he was optimistic about the outcome but that it would be necessary to wait for 100 percent of the votes to be counted. Fujimori, who has already tried and failed to reach the presidency three times, signaled late Sunday that it may be days before the result is known. "As of now there is no winner.
There will be long days ahead," she said. Fujimori is the daughter of the late president Alberto Fujimori, who had been jailed for human rights violations. Many voters had hoped the election would draw a line under years of political chaos that has seen a string of presidents jailed, deposed and impeached.
Whoever is elected will be the ninth president in a decade. Peru remains deeply divided between the populous coast and the more rural, Indigenous south.
