The dispute for the second round of Peru's presidential election remains fierce, with left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez Palomino with a small margin of 19,800 votes ahead of right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, this Tuesday (9). With 95.9% of the ballots counted, the result remains unpredictable. While Sanchéz has 50.056% of the votes, Keiko has 49.944%. The difference between the two reduced in the last few hours, with an increase in votes for Fujimori. Related news: This Sunday, Peru elects its 9th president in ten years of political crisis. Bolivian Congress approves state of exception law. Sánchez numerically surpassed Keiko in the early afternoon of this Monday (8), when 93.9% of the ballots counted were reached.  At the beginning of the counting, when only 20% of the ballot boxes were counted, Keiko had 200,000 votes ahead of Sanchéz, due to the fact that the ballot boxes in Lima, the capital, were counted first.   The National Elections Juror (JNE), Peru's highest electoral authority, stated that the definitive results should only be released in “mid-July”. This is because a new mandatory mechanism for recounting votes in tables that showed some inconsistency was added to the counting process.  The JNE reports that, to date, 1,000 minutes “under observation” have been received, which had to be re-counted with the presence of party observers and inspectors. Of the more than 92,700 minutes of the Peruvian election, around 2,200 still need to be counted, according to the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) of Peru.  Of these, 1,700 are from tables abroad, where candidate Keiko Fujimori has been showing an advantage. As of midday this Tuesday, only 30.2% of the minutes from abroad had been counted, giving 65.4% of the votes to Keiko and 34.5% to Sanchéz. Keiko x Sanchez Roberto Sanchéz and Keiko Fujimori are competing for the presidential term in Peru for the five-year period from 2026 to 2031. The winner will be the ninth president of the South American country in ten years of political crisis. Since 2016, two presidents have resigned and four have been dismissed by the Peruvian parliament, considered the de facto power in the country. Daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), convicted of human rights violations, which included forced sterilization of indigenous women, Keiko lost in the last three elections in the 2nd round, in 2011, 2016 and 2021. On the other side, there is Roberto Sánchez, an ally of former president Pedro Castillo, who was dismissed, arrested and convicted of an attempted coup d'état when trying to dissolve Parliament. For his supporters, Castillo was the victim of a coup by the Legislature for representing the country's rural and indigenous vote. A psychologist by training, Sanchéz is a federal deputy for the Todos pelo Peru party, having been Castillo's minister. As soon as he voted yesterday (7) in Lima, Sanchéz went to the Barbadillo prison, where Castillo is being held, remaining there until the first partial results were released.