KEIKO FUJIMORI

A leftist political novice who has promised to be a champion of his country’s poor has been sworn in as Peru’s new president.

The humble two-story, adobe home of the Castillo family, located in one of the poorest districts of Peru deep in the Andes, feels a little empty now.

A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who has never held office is now Peru’s president-elect after officials in the South American country declared him the winner of a runoff election held last month.

A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who had never held office is now Peru's president-elect after officials in the South American country declared him the winner of a runoff election held last month. Leftist Pedro Castillo catapulted from unknown to president-elect with the support of the country's poor and rural citizens, many of whom identify with the struggles the teacher has faced. Castillo was officially declared winner Monday after the country’s electoral count became the longest in 40 years as his opponents fought the results.

Castillo, whose supporters included Peru's poor and rural citizens, defeated right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori by just 44,000 votes.

The political novice won the election after the country's longest vote count in 40 years. He defeated right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori by just 44,000 votes.

A rural teacher-turned-political novice has became the winner of Peru’s presidential election after the country’s longest electoral count in 40 years.

Rural teacher-turned-political novice Pedro Castillo on Monday became the winner of Peru’s presidential election after the country’s longest electoral count in 40 years. Castillo, whose supporters included Peru’s poor and rural citizens, defeated right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori by just 44,000 votes. Electoral authorities released the final official results more than a month after the runoff election took place in the South American nation.

The country is still waiting to find out the outcome of its most polarised poll in recent history.

By alleging fraud where there wasn’t any, defeated politicians around the world are adopting Trump’s tactics.

Mr Castillo secured just over 50% of all votes, but faces legal battles with rival Keiko Fujimori.

Leftist Pedro Castillo keeps a narrow lead, but an official announcement may take days.

Peru has finished tallying votes in the country’s tight presidential contest but no winner has been declared, with electoral authorities saying they are scrutinizing a small number of ballots amid unproven claims of possible vote tampering leveled by the apparent loser.

Peru finished tallying votes in the country’s tight presidential contest Thursday but no winner was declared, with electoral authorities saying they were scrutinizing a small number of ballots amid unproven claims of possible vote tampering leveled by the apparent loser. With votes from rural areas and Peruvian embassies abroad now fully in, leftist Pedro Castillo maintained his narrow lead, with 50.2% of the votes against 49.8% for conservative Keiko Fujimori. Peru’s electoral tribunal, which was expected to take a week or more to officially declare a winner, was evaluating 631 tally sheets, about half of which had been questioned by campaign representatives.

After being overtaken by her rival in the vote count, Keiko Fujimori says there has been fraud.

Peruvians on Tuesday were still waiting to learn who will become their president next month as votes from Sunday’s runoff election continued to be counted and the tiny difference between the two polarizing populist candidates narrowed. With 97% of ballots tallied, leftist Pedro Castillo had 50.2% of the vote, while conservative Keiko Fujimori had 49.7%, according to official results. Peru’s elections agency, the National Office of Electoral Processes, continued to count votes cast in remote rural areas and abroad.

With 94% of ballots tallied, leftist Pedro Castillo had 50.07% of the vote; conservative Keiko Fujimori had 49.92%, according to official results.

A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president are facing off in Peru's runoff election, which remains too close to call.

An early lead for Keiko Fujimori narrows as her left-wing rival Pedro Castillo wins in rural areas.

Conservative Keiko Fujimori — whose dad, Alberto, is serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and the killings of 25 people — has a small lead over Pedro Castillo in Sunday's presidential election.

A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president have traded the lead in a tight race for Peru's presidency.

Peruvian voters faced a choice between two polarizing populist candidates during Sunday's presidential runoff.

A left-wing teacher faces the conservative heir of the powerful Fujimori family in a divisive election.

Sunday's presidential election in Peru comes as many citizens are losing hope for their economy and their democracy.

Peruvians vote on Sunday for a new president after a polarising hard-Left versus hard-Right campaign dominated by the bloody reemergence of remnants of the Shining Path Marxist terrorists. Pedro Castillo, a radical teachers union leader, faces off against Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the disgraced 1990s strongman Alberto Fujimori, in an election that has left many in the pandemic-ravaged Andean nation in despair. The most recent polls had the pair in a statistical dead heat. Castillo, 51, began t

Hopes for a sustained democratic rebirth in the seven Andean nations have waned, again.

Peruvians are set to pick a new president amid a relentless coronavirus pandemic that has even pushed cemeteries in the South American nation beyond capacity

Peruvians are set to pick a new president amid a relentless coronavirus pandemic that has even pushed cemeteries in the South American nation beyond capacity.

Amid an unrelenting coronavirus pandemic that has overwhelmed cemeteries, Peruvian voters will choose Sunday between a political novice who has scared business by promising to overhaul the key mining industry and a career politician whose father is a former president jailed for corruption and human rights violations. The polarizing runoff election between rural teacher Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, making her third run for the presidency, comes on the heels of the Peruvian government’s admission that the death toll of the pandemic is at least 2.5 times higher than previously acknowledged. While Castillo’s stance on nationalizing key sectors of the economy has softened, he remains committed to rewriting the constitution that was approved under the regime of Fujimori's father and his rivals have compared his leftist policies to those of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

In a nation once marked by its successful fight against poverty, voters now face a pair of unappealing alternatives.

As schools across Peru closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pedro Castillo tried to find a way to keep classes going for his 20 fifth- and sixth-grade students.

Ecuador will be led for the next four years by a conservative businessman after voters rebuffed a left-leaning movement that yielded an economic boom and then a recession since taking hold of the presidency last decade.

Voters in Ecuador appear to have turned to a conservative businessman in their presidential runoff election, rebuffing a leftist movement that has held the presidency for over a decade while ushering in an economic boom and then a yearslong recession.

A surging pandemic that has brought new lockdown measures has pushed the upcoming elections to the background for many weary voters in the neighboring South American nations of Ecuador and Peru.