Keiko Fujimori maintains a 4.4 point advantage over Sánchez at 76% of the vote in Peru
The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori maintains an advantage of 4.4 percentage points over the leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez after reaching 76% of the votes counted in the second round of the presidential elections in Peru, held on Sunday.
With three quarters of the votes already counted, the daughter and political heir of former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) obtains 52.21% of the valid votes, while the squire and representative of the imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) achieves 47.78%.
In number of votes, the leader of the Fujimori Popular Force party obtains 7,886,212 votes, ahead of the 7,038,001 registered by the leader of the left-wing party Together for Peru.
Two projections published on Sunday night predict that the difference between both candidates will be reduced to minimum levels as the scrutiny progresses, with the possibility that Sánchez will even overtake Fujimori.
The sample prepared by the Ipsos company for the Transparencia Civil Association, with a margin of error of 1.9%, awarded 50.3% to Sánchez, against 49.7% to Fujimori. Meanwhile, another projection with official minutes from the private company Datum Internacional, with a margin of error of 1%, indicated that Sánchez received 50.14% and Fujimori 49.86%.
The first votes to be counted belong mostly to the capital Lima and other cities in the country, where Fujimori is the most voted candidate, while Sánchez concentrates her support in rural areas, whose votes are usually the last to be counted.
In the last two electoral appointments, Fujimori, who is running for the Presidency of Peru for the fourth time, was left at the doors of the Government Palace by just 40,000 votes compared to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016) and Pedro Castillo (2021). (EFE)
