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Castillo overtakes Fujimori in Peru’s presidential vote count (Update 1)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Peruvian presidential candidate Pedro Castillo overtook his rival, Keiko Fujimori, on Monday in the tight vote count of the presidential elections, which has already counted 92.62% of the votes.

Castillo, the leftist Peru Libre party candidate, is thus ahead for the first time with 50.07 % of the valid votes against 49.92 % for Fujimori, who ran for the third time for the presidency for the pro-Fujimori Popular Force party.

The winner of the most polarized and divided elections in Peru's recent history will be decided vote by vote, as already predicted on . . .

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