Keiko Fujimori narrowly elected Peru's president

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, won Peru's presidential runoff with 50.135% of the vote against Roberto Sánchez’s 49.865%, a margin of just 0.27 percentage points (about 49,000 votes). It was her fourth presidential bid and makes her the first woman to be elected president of Peru. The vote count took 22 days, and Sánchez has refused to concede, signalling possible legal challenges.

Fujimori campaigned on a hard‑line security platform, promising large prisons, the swift deportation of illegal migrants, expanded private investment, deregulation and reduced bureaucracy. International observers, including the OAS, deemed the election process orderly. The result comes amid a decade of political turbulence in Peru, where nine presidents have served since 2016.