Votes continue to be counted: the left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez consolidates himself to contest the runoff with Keiko Fujimori

When 98.2% of the vote has been counted, Fujimori receives 17.13% of the vote this Wednesday, followed by Sánchez, with 12.03%, and López Aliaga, with 11.89%.

These figures, in addition to confirming Fujimori’s presence in the second round, having received 2,824,688 votes, They give Sánchez 23,709 votes ahead of López Aliagasince the leftist has 1,984,313 votes compared to 1,960,604 for the far-right.

The National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) detailed that 91,113 voting records were counted and only the offices of the electoral jury are pending review 1,653 electoral records.

This Tuesday, the interim head of the ONPE, Bernardo Pachas, reaffirmed before a commission of the Peruvian Congress that during the general elections of April 12 and 13 There were delays in the distribution of electoral material, especially in Limabut he stressed that voter participation was similar to that of previous elections.

The official said that the delays affected 1.34% of the voting stations in Lima, but at the national level they only reached 0.4% of the total.

However, this same Tuesday, the Transparencia Civil Association urged to measure “the serious incidents” that occurred on election day and although it maintained that they only reached 0.65% of the total number of premises in the country, He assured that “they clearly affected the vote in locations focused on Lima.”

The organization stressed that, despite this, “There is no evidence” that these problems “have been systematic and intentional”for which he considered that “there is no scenario of fraud or distortion of the popular will.”

Since the beginning of the same election day, López Aliaga has denounced, without presenting conclusive evidence, fraud against him, considering that the vote was affected in Lima, where he has his great electoral stronghold.

In turn, Sánchez’s party, Together for Peru, pointed out that the Peruvian electoral process is being judicialized with the aim of obstructing its developmentsince he said that four protection processes have been filed that seek to paralyze the completion of the count.

Fujimori, for his part, has begun a tour of the country with a view to the second round, which has already led him to visit the southern region of Ica, the Andean region of Ayacucho and the Amazon region of Ucayali, one of the departments where the daughter and political heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) received the most votes in the first round.