Left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez advances to presidential runoff in Peru
Roberto Sanchez of the Juntos por el Perú party has advanced to the Peruvian presidential runoff after a lengthy vote count confirmed his narrow lead over far-right candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga. He will face Keiko Fujimori, who secured her spot early with 17% of the vote, in the June 7 runoff. Despite unfounded fraud allegations and calls for annulment by Lopez Aliaga, electoral authorities upheld the results, which international observers deemed transparent.
- ▪Roberto Sanchez advanced to the runoff with 12% of the vote, narrowly defeating Rafael Lopez Aliaga by 21,210 votes.
- ▪Keiko Fujimori secured her runoff spot early, receiving 17% of the vote in the first round.
- ▪Lopez Aliaga repeatedly alleged election fraud without evidence and called for vote annulment, supported by some retired military officers.
- ▪The electoral jury rejected about 20 attempts to annul the election, and international observers affirmed its transparency.
- ▪Official results are set to be announced on May 17, though Lopez Aliaga continued demanding new elections as of late May.
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Peruvian presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez, from the Juntos por el Perú party, in Huaycan, Lima, May 9, 2026. CONNIE FRANCE / AFP After the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, April 12, it took 33 days, a seemingly endless vote count, thousands of ballots re-examined following baseless accusations of fraud and about 20 attempts to annul the vote rejected by the electoral jury, for Peruvians to finally know the identities of the two candidates advancing to the June 7 runoff. Keiko Fujimori, 50, daughter of autocrat Alberto Fujimori (president from 1990 to 2000) and candidate of the populist right, had been the first to secure her spot in the runoff as early as April 12, with 17% of the vote.
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