With roughly 90% of votes counted in Peru's first-round presidential election, left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez has climbed from sixth place to second, narrowly overtaking far-right former Lima mayor Rafael López Aliaga and earning a spot in the 7 June runoff against frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, who leads with around 17% of the vote. Sánchez's surge is driven largely by rural ballots — among the last to be tallied by Peru's electoral authority (ONPE) — prompting López Aliaga to allege fraud, call for results to be annulled, and direct a sexual threat at the head of Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE). However, the European Union's Electoral Observation Mission, the public prosecutor's office, and the national ombudsman have all concluded there is no evidence of electoral fraud, with the ombudsman stating there are "no technical or legal grounds to speak of fraud." The episode has exposed deep social divisions, with racially charged attacks circulating online against rural voters who backed Sánchez, while observers note that Peru's slow manual count of remote communities is a structural feature of its electoral system, not an anomaly.