With 25% of the count, the candidate of Popular Renewal obtains 19.44% of the votes compared to 17.24% of the leader of Popular Force, in a day marked by vote fragmentation and with the second round practically already on the horizon.
Rafael López Aliaga and Keiko Fujimori lead the provisional scrutiny of the elections held this Sunday, according to the advance released by EFE, in a very fragmented scenario and with no candidate close to the 50% necessaryed to win in the first round. Reuters had also been indicating during the night that the official count placed López Aliaga and Fujimori in the lead in the first advances and considered a second round on June 7 very probable.
The Peruvian electoral event has also been held in a context of strong institutional erosion, insecurity, and political distrust. More than 27 million Peruvians were called to vote in elections with a record number of candidates and with a counattempt that has strung toreceiveher years of instability in the Presidency. All of that explains that the count not only decides who goes to the runoff, but also what kind of political map an extraordinarily open first round leaves.
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