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Peru election: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski holds slight lead as votes counted Peru election: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's lead narrows
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Partial results in Peru's presidential election have given former World Bank executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a narrow lead. Counting continues following Sunday's presidential election in Peru with the two candidates neck and neck.
With 94% of the votes counted, Mr Kuczynski had 50.2% against 49.7% for Keiko Fujimori. With 94% of votes counted, 77-year-old former World Bank executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a 0.36% lead over Keiko Fujimori, 41.
Officials suggested it could take a few more days to declare a winner. Election officials said the votes of Peruvians living abroad still had to be processed and that it could take a few more days to declare a winner.
Ms Fujimori, 41, had a strong lead ahead of the vote on Sunday but corruption scandals in her Popular Force party may have dented her support. Before the election, polls had suggested Ms Fujimori would win.
She is the daughter of Peru's former President, Alberto Fujimori, who is in jail for crimes against humanity.
Ms Fujimori has said tackling crime is her priority. She won the first round of voting in April.
'Consensus'
The latest tally of votes is available at the Peruvian electoral commission (ONPE) website.The latest tally of votes is available at the Peruvian electoral commission (ONPE) website.
Mr Kuczynski, 77, who is an ex-Wall Street financier, said he would use his international financial experience to promote economic growth. 'Risk to democracy'
"We're going to have a government built on consensus. No more low blows or fights," he said, as the results started to come in. Analysts said corruption scandals in Ms Fujimori's Popular Force Party may have dented her support since April, when she comfortably won the first round of voting.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski She is the daughter of Peru's former President, Alberto Fujimori, who is in jail for crimes against humanity.
Ms Fujimori won support from some Peruvians who credit her father with defeating the country's Maoist Shining Path rebel group in the 1990s.
Shadow of jailed ex-president cast over Peru pollsShadow of jailed ex-president cast over Peru polls
Keiko FujimoriKeiko Fujimori
But others say they would never support anyone associated with her father, who is serving 25 years in prison for ordering death squads to massacre civilians during his attempts to end the insurgency. In the run-up to the second round, Mr Kuczynski portrayed Ms Fujimori as a "risk to democracy", reminding voters of her father's crimes and authoritarian style of government.
Mr Kuczynski is supported by the main opposition forces, including prominent figures such as left-wing former candidate Veronika Mendoza and the Nobel Prize winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. But many Peruvians, who credit her father with defeating the Shining Path rebel movement, were drawn to her promise of being tough on crime.
Mr Kuczynski, who is an ex-Wall Street financier, said he would use his international financial experience to promote economic growth.
He has the support of prominent figures such as Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and left-wing candidate Veronika Mendoza, who came third in the first round of voting.
But he has faced scrutiny over his close relationship to Peru's business elite.But he has faced scrutiny over his close relationship to Peru's business elite.
If he wins, he will become the oldest ever president of Peru at the time of taking office. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Some 23 million Peruvians were eligible to vote voted on Sunday's election to replace outgoing leftist President Ollanta Humala. Both candidates called for calm as the votes were being counted.
Most of the votes from Peruvians abroad were cast in the United States, where Mr Kuczynski campaigned in April.
US-based Peruvians overwhelmingly backed Ms Fujimori in the last presidential election in 2011 against leftist candidate Ollanta Humala, who narrowly beat her to the presidency.