Overview
- The June 7 presidential runoff between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez has produced no official winner because partial tallies and independent quick counts show only fractional differences between the two candidates.
- Independent quick counts gave Sánchez a slight lead of a few tenths of a percentage point while official tallies have swung, with recent partials around 93–95% counted showing margins measured in thousandths.
- Electoral authorities report roughly 400,000 to 450,000 contested votes and have ordered targeted recounts, a process officials say could delay the formal proclamation of results until July.
- Roberto Sánchez was recently referred to a judge over alleged party financial irregularities, a legal step that is developing but has not prevented him from contesting the election.
- Whichever candidate wins will inherit a fragmented Congress, rising insecurity and a deeply divided country split between the coastal and Lima vote for Fujimori and strong rural support for Sánchez, and will take office on July 28.