{"id":7764,"date":"2026-06-06T18:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/peru-election\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:55:35","slug":"peru-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/peru-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru election to be tight runoff between Fujimori and S\u00e1nchez : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n A supporters hols a banner of presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori during her closing campaign rally in Lima, Peru, Thursday.\n \n \n Rodrigo Abd\/AP\n \n <\/b>\n hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Rodrigo Abd\/AP\n \n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

LIMA, Peru \u2014 Peruvians will elect their new president Sunday with polls suggesting a polarized but tight race between perennial hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>

Fujimori had been polling a few points<\/a> ahead, with around a quarter of voters still undecided, but Reuters reports<\/a> S\u00e1nchez could have narrowed the gap in the last week.<\/p>

Keiko, as she’s known in Peru, is running on the legacy of her father, the late, disgraced strongman President Alberto Fujimori. That legacy includes crushing both hyperinflation and the Maoist insurgents of the Shining Path, who bathed Peru in blood in the 1980s and 1990s. It also includes running death squads \u2014 for which he was eventually sentenced to 25 years in prison \u2014 shuttering congress, bribing journalists and epic corruption.<\/p>