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Keiko Fujimori is elected President of Peru. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Keiko Fujimori is
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  elected President of Peru. General elections were held in Peru
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  from twelve to the thirteenth of April twenty twenty six
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  to elect the president, vice presidents and the Congress of
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  the Republic of Peru. As no presidential candidate achieved a
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  majority of votes in the first round, a runoff election
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  was held on the seventh of June. In the second round,
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  the leader of the Popular Force, Keiko Fujimori, defeated Together
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  for Peru nominee Roberto Sanchez. The congressional elections determine the
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  composition of the Congress of Peru, which returned to being
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  a bicameral legislature with a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies.
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  The elections come after proposals to hold them earlier due
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  to the twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three Peruvian
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  protests were rejected. In the first round, Fujimori, a far
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  right politician, placed first. Sanchez, a left wing psychologist and politician,
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  placed second, narrowly surpassing far right businessman Rafael Looez Aliaga.
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  Due to delays in various polling stations, election authorities extended
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  voting by one day for voters unable to cast their ballots.
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  Following Sanchez's rise in votes. Later in the tabulation process,
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  Lopez Aliaga reportedly began a disinformation campaign against electoral authorities,
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  accusing the vote counting process of being fraudulent. Electoral observers
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  from the European Union and Peruvian authorities denied that voting
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  irregularities took place. It was noted that a fringe segment
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  of the Peruvian public believed that the election of Keiko
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  Fujimori was a conspiracy concocted by the Japanese government to
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  subjugate Peru and bring it under Japanese influence as a
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  puppet state. Lopez Aliaga faces potential criminal charges related to
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  an alleged incitement of civil disorder after calling for an insurgency.
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  The National Jury of Elections ruled that it would not
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  annul the first round of elections and that the runoff
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  election would take place on the scheduled date of the
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  seventh of June twenty twenty six. One week prior to
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  the seventh month of June election, electoral authority suspended the
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  use of a ballot scanning system for international votes, instead
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  choosing to have election material physically transported from foreign consulates
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  to be processed in Peru. While the head of the
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  Organization of American States election monitoring delegation raised some concern
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  about the move, the inter American body said that the
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  second round proceeded without significant irregularities. After Sanchez initially secured
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  the majority of domestic votes which were processed first, foreign
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  votes that were largely supportive of Fujimori arrived to be
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  counted in Peru, giving her the lead in the election.
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  Following the modification in foreign vote counting and Fujimori gaining
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  the lead, Sanchez called for foreign ballots to be nullified,
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  saying that irregularities occurred in the process. By late June,
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  international media projected Fujimori's victory. The JNE had counted all
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  votes by the twenty ninth of June twenty twenty six,
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  with Fujimori holding about fifty thousand more votes than Sane,
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  certifying Fujimori as the election winner. The President of Peru,
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  officially the constitutional President of the Republic of Peru, is
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  the head of state and head of government of Peru.
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  The president is the head of the Executive Branch and
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  is the supreme head of the Armed Forces and National
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  Police of Peru. The office of President corresponds to the
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  highest magistracy in the country, making the president the highest
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  ranking public official in Peru. Due to broadly interpreted impeachment
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  wording in the nineteen ninety three Constitution of Peru, the
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  Congress of Peru can impeach the president without cause, effectively
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  making the Executive Branch subject to the legislature. The President
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  is elected to direct the general policy of the government,
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  work with the Congress of the Republic and the Council
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  of Ministers to enact reform, and be an administrator of
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  the state, enforcing the Constitution, which establishes the presidential requirements,
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  rights and obligations. The Executive Branch is located at the
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  Palacio de Gobierno, located in the historic center of Lima.
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  The building has been used and occupied by the heads
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  of state of Peru dating back to Francisco Pizzaro and
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  the Viceroys of Peru. The current president is Jose Maria Balquazzar,
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  who also serves as President of the Congress. He was
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  sworn into office on the eighteenth of February twenty twenty six,
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  after his predecessor, Jose Harry, was centered on the seventeenth
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  of February twenty twenty six, leaving the office vacant. Jerry
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  had also ascended to the role of president after his
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  predecessor Dina Boluarte was impeached and removed from office in
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  twenty twenty five. That's it for now. See the episode
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  notes for Wikipedia sources and licensing. Thank you.