Peru Presidential election Still Too Close To Call

Reuters: Peru's Kuczynski has thin lead over Fujimori in presidential vote

Former Wall Street executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski held a razor-thin lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former authoritarian leader in a vote that may be Peru's closest presidential election in half a century.

With 91 percent of all votes counted on Monday, Kuczynski had 50.32 percent support while Fujimori trailed with 49.68 percent. The gap had narrowed from a previous tally.

Ballots of Peruvians living abroad will only begin to arrive on Monday night and the count may not be finished until Thursday or Friday, Mariano Cucho, the head of the electoral office ONPE, said.

Making up 3.86 percent of the electorate, foreign-based voters mostly live in the United States where Kuczynski stumped for votes.

But Fujimori, 41, received strong support from abroad in her first bid for the presidency in 2011, which she narrowly lost to outgoing President Ollanta Humala.

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