Keiko Fujimori Elected as Peru's Ninth President in 10 Years

Conservative Party presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, has emerged as the winner of the Peruvian presidential election. She was declared the winner after a weeks-long vote count that concluded with an extremely slim margin of victory.

According to CNN on Sunday (5/7/2026), Peru’s electoral office confirmed on Friday (3/7) that Fujimori, the eldest daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, won the second round of voting held on 7 June.

This victory represents her fourth attempt to claim the presidency, having previously failed to win in 2011, 2016, and 2021.

In a post on X following the official announcement, Fujimori thanked voters for their support and stated that Peru is entering a ‘new chapter’. She pledged to lead the transition with ‘humility and a deep sense of responsibility’.

The announcement came several days after Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes released the final vote count, showing Fujimori’s party, Fuerza Popular, ahead of left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez of the Together for Peru party.

The margin was only 49,641 votes out of approximately 18 million votes cast. Fujimori obtained 50.13% of the valid votes compared to 49.86% for Sánchez.

Fujimori (51) will be inaugurated as president on 28 July and is expected to serve a five-year term alongside Luis Fernando Galarreta as First Vice President and Miguel Ángel Torres Morales as Second Vice President.

She will become Peru’s ninth president in the last decade. She takes over Peru following a period of prolonged political instability often associated with her father’s presidency, who was ousted in 2000 and later convicted of corruption, embezzlement, and human rights violations, leaving a highly divisive legacy in the country following a controversial pardon in 2023.

The result is expected to reshape Peru’s political landscape after one of the tightest presidential elections in recent years. Sánchez previously stated that he would not recognise the Fujimori administration.

Following the announcement of the final vote count, he alleged irregularities in overseas voting and stated he would file an appeal with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). In Fujimori’s victory declaration on Friday (3/7), Peru’s National Electoral Board stated that the review found no such inconsistencies in the voting and rejected the appeal filed by Together for Peru.