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Weekly Report - 16 April 2026 (WR-26-15)

Fujimori could face Sánchez in Peru run-off repeat

Four days after the first round of presidential elections in Peru on 12 April the result remains up in the air. This owes in part to mistakes by the electoral authorities and a slow count but also to the fragmentation of the vote, with little dividing the top five presidential candidates in a record field of 35. The most likely outcome is a deeply polarised run-off pitting candidates on the far right and left of the political spectrum against one another. Keiko Fujimori, the scion of her late father Alberto Fujimori’s authoritarian and kleptocratic dynasty, is definitely through. Second place is very closely contested but Roberto Sánchez, the political heir to imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo, the Marxist rural schoolteacher who defeated Fujimori at the same stage in 2021, has a slight edge over the right-wing populist Rafael López Aliaga.

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