Elections in Peru: Keiko Fujimori extends her lead to 1,300 votes over Sánchez

Data from the ONPE, 98.258% of the votes counted, and a handful of pending minutes, this Friday gave Fujimori 50,004% (9,036,046 votes) and Sánchez 49,996% (9,034,743 votes).

The count, which has been going on for days, remains extremely tight, and although Fujimori leads, the margin is minimal and the final result is not yet defined.

There are still to enter 1,611 minutes that were challenged or have some type of material errorwhich must be reviewed by the special electoral juries (JEE), although the majority They come from various areas of Limathe capital that concentrates a third of the country’s population.

In this regard, Fujimori expressed this Thursday that he takes the results of the second round with “serenity and great gratitude” and recalled that Sánchez stated that will respect the results of the election.

“Whichever the winner is, “We are willing to dialogue in the next five years.”he stated before indicating that he will wait to know the final results to “be able to talk with Roberto Sánchez.”

Asked about the voting station challenges apparently raised by Sánchez’s Together for Peru, Fujimori responded that He did not see “any cause for nullity” in those votes, but that his rivals “have every right to do so.”

Sánchez’s political party also reiterated its call for calm so that the electoral process concludes “without any incidents”, after the call for mobilizations in several cities of the country in support of its presidential candidate.

The general secretary of Together for Peru, Ernesto Zunini, said that they have taken the latest results of the vote counting “calmly” and that now they only wait for the process to conclude.

“We are in a democratic country, apart from supporting (the demonstrations), we do call on the population for calm so that the electoral process concludes without any incidents,” he remarked.