Peru’s conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori vowed on Monday to restore “order and hope” after defeating left-winger Roberto Sanchez in the latest victory for a resurgent Latin American right.
Fujimori won the June 7 presidential run-off by the slimmest of margins, outpolling Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.
“Each time we draw closer to starting on the path of order and hope for all Peruvians,” she wrote on X after being proclaimed the winner.
The 51-year-old daughter of late president Alberto Fujimori secured the top office on her fourth attempt.
The election was fought on rising crime and chronic political instability, which has seen the Andean country burn through eight presidents in a decade.
With extortion gangs and contract killings on the rise, Fujimori vowed a strong hand, like that of her autocratic father.
