Lima – After weeks of protests, fraud accusations and review of contested ballots in a razor-thin race, conservative Keiko Fujimori was officially declared the winner of Peru’s presidential race by the country’s electoral office on Friday.
Fujimori won 50.135% of the vote in the June 7 runoff to clinch the nation’s top office ?in her fourth run for the presidency, just ahead of leftist congressman Roberto Sanchez’s 49.865%, a difference of about 50,000 votes out ?of ?18 million.
“We’re going to identify all the best practices, initiatives, and projects that have yielded results so ?that they can continue,” Fujimori said at her party headquarters alongside her staff, adding that “today marks the beginning of a new era for Peru — an era of responsibility, dialogue, and results to restore confidence in our institutions.”
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