Fujimori and nationalist Sanchez virtually tied as vote count continues in Peru
New Delhi, June 9 -- A razor-thin presidential runoff left Peruvians without a clear winner Monday, with conservative politician Keiko Fujimori and nationalist congressman Roberto Sanchez virtually tied.
With 94% of ballots tallied, the figures showed Sanchez earned 8.79 million votes, or 50.015%, while Fujimori received 8.78 million votes, or 49.985%.
The winner will be the South American country's ninth president in 10 years. Fujimori, daughter of a disgraced former president, and Sanchez, an ally of an imprisoned ex-president, were on the runoff's ballot after beating 33 other candidates in the vote in April, but neither earned even 20% of support. Electoral authorities took more than a month to declare them winners of that contest....
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