Keiko Fujimori expects to be proclaimed as elected president of Peru in the coming days
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
LIMA – Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, winner of the second round of Peru's presidential elections against leftist Roberto Sánchez, stated on Wednesday that she hopes the National Jury of Elections (JNE) will officially proclaim the results in the coming days so she can begin forming her government and preparing her administration's initial measures. "It is important that we can have the proclamation from the electoral authorities in the coming days," Fujimori said in a statement alongside a stack of boxes containing over 82,500 ballots collected by her more than 90,000 delegates deployed on the day of the second round of presidential voting on June 7, aimed at monitoring the vote and validating her victory. "We want to show the evidence," said the daughter and political heir of former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) as she declined to respond to Sánchez, who, without evidence, alleges fraud and demands the annulment of voting abroad, which would reverse the results and give him the victory, as he has more votes within the national territory. The leader of the Fujimorista party Fuerza Popular assured that she understands how Sánchez may feel, as she has gone through the same situation three times, having been defeated in the second round of presidential elections against Ollanta Humala (2011), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016), and Pedro Castillo (2021), the last two by just a 40,000 vote difference. This time, with 98.86% of the votes counted, Fujimori has 50.12% of the valid votes compared to Sánchez's 49.88%, separated by a narrow margin of 44,027 votes.
AI summary · Source: Telemundo McAllen (KTLM) →
