Keiko Fujimori declared winner of Peru presidential election

Three weeks after the runoff vote, the Peruvian national electoral office (ONPE) officially declared Keiko Fujimori the winner of the presidential election. Fujimori, representing the Fuerza Popular party, secured 50.13% of the vote, while her opponent Roberto Sanchez received 49.86%. The difference between the two candidates is less than 50,000 votes out of over 18 million cast. This election marks the return of the Fujimorist political movement, two decades after the end of the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, who held office from 1990 to 2000 and was later convicted of corruption and human rights abuses. Roberto Sanchez has challenged the results, alleging irregularities in the votes cast by the Peruvian diaspora and indicating he may not recognize the outcome. The electoral process was described as one of the most contested in Latin American history. The official results were confirmed by ONPE following a period where Fujimori held a lead that became mathematically insurmountable.