Peru Cannot Produce Majorities

Since 2016, Peru has had eight presidents, faced seven formal congressional attempts to remove sitting leaders, and gone through a near continuous cycle of institutional crises. The 2026 presidential election now appears to condense that trajectory into a single number: just 651 votes separate Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez after more than 98 percent of ballots have been counted.

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