1st LD Writethru: Keiko Fujimori takes more than half of votes in Peru presidential election: official count

LIMA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Peru's right-wing Popular Force candidate Keiko Fujimori secured more than half of the valid votes in the presidential election, the 100-percent official count results showed Monday.

According to figures released by Peru's National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) on its real-time vote-counting platform, Fujimori received 50.135 percent of the valid votes, while her rival Roberto Sanchez of Together for Peru got 49.865 percent.

The results translated 9,223,396 votes for Keiko Fujimori and 9,173,755 votes for Roberto Sanchez. Fujimori is the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000, while Sanchez served as a minister under then-President Pedro Castillo from 2021 to 2022.

The figures gave the right-wing candidate a lead of 49,641 votes, positioning her for what would be her first presidential victory after three previous bids.

According to official data from the ONPE, all 92,766 tally sheets from the June 7 election had been processed by Monday.

Roberto Burneo, president of the National Jury of Elections, said in recent days that the electoral authority was expected to officially proclaim the results on Friday. Enditem