Peru elects new president in runoff between Fujimori and Sanchez

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• DW News·3h ago
  Peru elects new president in runoff between Fujimori and Sanchez

  Peru faces a runoff election as voters choose between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez, potentially delivering the ninth president in ten years amid ongoing instability and crime concerns.

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• Guardian World·7h ago·Dan Collyns in Lima
  Peru faces straight left-right runoff between Fujimori and Sánchez

  Peruvians vote Sunday in a runoff between right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist congressman Roberto Sánchez for the presidency. Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, won 17% in the April first round; Sánchez, ex-trade and tourism minister, won 12%, narrowly beating Rafael López Aliaga. The election echoes a polarized left-right clash, amid concerns over crime, instability, corruption scandals, and voter apathy, as Peru seeks its ninth president in a decade.

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