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Peruvian candidate Sánchez to seek annulment of overseas votes for victory
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Peruvian candidate Sánchez to seek annulment of overseas votes for victory

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Peruvian presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez plans to request the annulment of overseas votes, which he claims would secure him victory over Keiko Fujimori.
  • With 99.64% of votes counted, Fujimori leads Sánchez by a narrow margin, but Sánchez would win if foreign votes are excluded.
  • Sánchez's announcement follows the rejection of a previous electoral appeal to nullify over 1,700 polling stations' votes from the June 7 election.

Leftist presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez announced he will seek to annul votes cast by Peruvians abroad, a move he believes would grant him victory in the country's closely contested election. Sánchez, who is trailing right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, stated his intention during a press conference with foreign correspondents.

Official results show Fujimori with 50.11% of the valid votes compared to Sánchez's 49.88%, a difference of 41,633 votes, with 99.64% of the ballots tallied. However, Sánchez's campaign argues that if votes from overseas polling stations are excluded, he would emerge victorious with 50.11% of the vote, holding a lead of 39,614 over Fujimori.

This latest move comes after electoral authorities dismissed an earlier appeal by Sánchez's party. That appeal sought to invalidate the results from more than 1,700 polling stations from the June 7 election. The campaign is now focused on the overseas vote as a potential pathway to the presidency.

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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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