Peru authorities confirm Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez advance to the runoff

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17/5/2026 FTS 12.30   Peru's national election board confirms that Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez have advanced to the second round of the presidential elections. teleSUR These and more stories now!  🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel  https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.ins tagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00Peru's National Election Board confirmed that Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez have advanced

00:05to the second round of the presidential elections. The electoral body presented the official

00:09certificate with their results, which showed that Fujimori received 17.1% of the votes and

00:16Sanchez 12%. In turn, the chairman of the National Electoral

00:19Board, Roberto Borneo, confirmed that the second round will be held on June 7th, since no candidate

00:25received 50% of the votes required to win in the first round. Fujimori and Sanchez will

00:31compete for the presidency amid severe political instability, with Peru having had eight presidents since 2019.

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