RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The leftist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party maintains a lead of 71,764 votes over his rival Keiko Fujimori, of the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, in the Peruvian presidential elections, when 99.795 percent of the votes have been counted.
According to data from the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Castillo has received 8,735,448 votes, while Fujimori obtained 8,663,684, which means a reduction of the advantage that the leftist candidate has maintained in the last hours.
Castillo has so far obtained 50.2 percent of the votes . . .
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