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Weekly Report - 11 June 2026 (WR-26-23)
Fourth time lucky for Fujimori?
After narrowly losing three consecutive presidential run-off elections in Peru, Keiko Fujimori might have won at the fourth opportunity on 7 June by the closest margin of all, with the result confirming the country’s deep polarisation. In a nip-and-tuck contest with Roberto Sánchez, of the left-wing coalition Juntos por el Perú (JPP), Fujimori, the candidate of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (FP), leads by the slenderest of margins, but the fact that the most tally sheets containing irregularities were in Lima, where she won comfortably, should see her over the line. It could be weeks, however, before these are revised and a winner is declared.
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- CHILE: Opposition denounces crackdown on protest
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