{"id":20400,"date":"2026-04-26T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/20400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:56:15","slug":"perus-fujimori-leftist-sanchez-deadlocked-in-presidential-runoff-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/20400\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru&#8217;s Fujimori, leftist Sanchez deadlocked in presidential runoff poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LIMA, April 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori is heading for a dead-heat presidential runoff \u200cagainst leftist Roberto Sanchez, a new poll showed \u200con Sunday, as Peru&#8217;s vote count drags on amid fraud \u200ballegations and a razor-thin battle for second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori would tie with Sanchez at 38% each in a June 7 runoff, polling \u200cfirm Ipsos Peru \u2060said, in the first survey since the April 12 first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The slow \u2060count has sparked fraud allegations from ultra-conservative Rafael Lopez Aliaga, who trails Sanchez by about 24,000 votes in \u200bthe fight \u200bfor second place &#8211; a \u200bgap that has widened \u200cin recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Lopez Aliaga has demanded thousands of votes be annulled as fraudulent, but European Union observers said they found no evidence to support the claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 With 95.8% of votes counted, Fujimori leads \u200cwith 17%, while Sanchez has \u200b12% and Lopez Aliaga 11.9%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 \u200bIf Fujimori faces \u200bLopez Aliaga instead, she would lose 31%-34%, \u200cthe poll showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The Organization \u200bof American \u200bStates on Friday backed the electoral board&#8217;s rejection of demands for supplementary elections, and called for &#8220;unrestricted \u200brespect for the \u200cpopular will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Sanchez served as a minister \u200bunder jailed former President Pedro Castillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Marco \u200bAquinoEditing by Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIMA, April 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori is heading for a dead-heat presidential runoff \u200cagainst leftist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10263,17,10261,10265,391,10264,10262],"class_list":{"0":"post-20400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-alberto-fujimori","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-keiko-fujimori","11":"tag-lopez-aliaga","12":"tag-peru","13":"tag-rafael-lopez-aliaga","14":"tag-roberto-sanchez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}