Ex-Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s camp claims victory in Peru’s photo-finish presidential election, but controversial rival Keiko Fujimori says it’s not over till the last vote is counted.
Kuczynski is the son of a Jewish doctor from Germany.
Presidential candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski celebrates from the balcony of his headquarter in Lima, Peru, June 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
With more than 96 percent of the ballots in from Sunday’s polls, the Oxford-trained economist known as “PPK” has the edge in the race to lead one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies: 50.15 percent of the vote to 49.85 percent for Fujimori, the daughter of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori.
Kuczynski’s running mate, Martin Vizcarra, declares victory.
“This result is irreversible,” he tells RPP TV, as the national elections office (ONPE) continues tallying ballots from remote areas and overseas.
“Even if the ONPE hasn’t filled in the missing numbers, our people on the ground have copies of the result sheets and that enables us to calculate that PPK will win by about 100,000 votes.”
— AFP
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