The vote difference between leftist presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez and far-right candidate Rafael López Aliaga, who are vying to advance to the presidential runoff in Peru with right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, has narrowed to 15,748 ballots, according to 99.2% of the ballots counted as of this Saturday.

According to the official count of the elections conducted by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Fujimori has 2,857,233 votes, which is equivalent to 17.16% of valid votes; Sánchez received 1,998,360 votes, which means 12.00%, and López Aliaga has 1,982,612 ballots, which represents 11.91%.

The difference between the second and third candidates is 15,748 votes, with the vote of 653 records sent to the Special Electoral Juries (JEE) and one additional pending record remaining to be resolved, according to the ONPE results platform.

The National Elections Jury (JNE), the highest electoral court, estimated that it will be able to proceed with the proclamation of the final results in the second half of this month, approximately one month after the general elections held in Peru.

However, candidate López Aliaga said on Friday that he will not recognize the results of the presidential elections in Peru, whether won by right-wing Keiko Fujimori or leftist Roberto Sánchez, if the electoral jury does not accept his demand to review the entire process, considering that he is the victim of fraud.

“The second round cannot proclaim what is a crime against the popular will, we are going to go to the last consequences; if it is necessary to mobilize the people we will do it,” said López Aliaga at a meeting with the foreign press accredited in Peru.

The candidate of the Popular Renewal party remarked that among his measures will be to ask the Constitutional Court to declare “null in part or all of the process” and go to international organizations, which he did not specify.

He also said that he will call “the people” and recalled that in his country there was already “an antecedent, which was the March of the Four Suyos, which managed to overthrow an unconstitutional, illegitimate government,” referring to that of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), the father of Keiko Fujimori.

López Aliaga, who has denounced fraud without presenting conclusive evidence since the very day of the general elections on April 12, reiterated his request that the voting be annulled in the tables of the 900 series, used mainly in very remote areas of the country, where he has a residual vote, since his vote is mainly concentrated in Lima.

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