LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian electoral authorities confirmed on Sunday the official results of the first round of the presidential elections in early April, with Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez advancing to the runoff on June 7.
The final vote count was released Friday, but it had to be confirmed by Peru's National Elections Board to set the second round as none of the candidates received more than half the valid votes.
The 50-year-old congresswoman Fujimori, the daughter of the late President Alberto Fujimori and candidate for Fuerza Popular, gathered 2.8 million votes, or 17.19% of the total. She reached a presidential runoff for the fourth time.
Sánchez, of Juntos por el Perú party and a former foreign trade minister under former President Pedro Castillo, got 2.015 million votes, or 12.03%.
Both beat 33 other candidates with promises to put an end to surging crime, the top priority for Peruvians whose country’s mining-driven economy has proved resilient to political instability.
More than 70% of voters did not chose either Fujimori or Sánchez in the first round, meaning both candidates will have to form coalitions if they hope to win in the runoff.
Peru has been embroiled in a long political crisis that has seen eight presidents come and go in nearly a decade of clashes between Parliament and the executive branch, and protests that left 50 demonstrators dead between 2022 and 2023.
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Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, of the Popular Force party, waves to supporters in San Juan de Lurigancho district in Lima, Peru, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Harrison Bader hit a grand slam that capped an eight-run eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the sloppy Athletics 10-1 on Sunday in 25-35 mph winds.
Luis Arraez also homered and finished with three hits for the Giants, who took two of three games in the first series this season between the Northern California rivals.
Adrian Houser (2-4) allowed one run in six innings, pitching around five walks.
Athletics reliever Luis Medina loaded the bases with nobody out in the eighth and the Giants leading 2-1. Bader started the rally when he was safe on an error by Zack Gelof at third base — his second of the game.
Rafael Devers hit an RBI single, and another run scored on the play when center fielder Lawrence Butler committed a fielding error. Daniel Susac had an RBI groundout and Jung Hoo Lee singled in a run before Bader’s wind-aided slam to right.
The wind cost Bader a potential grand slam Saturday when his drive was blown in a couple of feet and pushed 20 feet to the right, according to @WeatherApplied. His 346-foot shot Sunday carried 7 feet farther and 18 feet to the right thanks to the stiff breeze, turning it into a home run.
Arraez also took advantage of wind blowing out to right field when he homered for the second time in the series — and this season — for a 1-0 lead against Jeffrey Springs in the third.
Willy Adames reached on a throwing error by Gelof, advanced on a balk and scored on a two-out double by Matt Chapman to make it 2-0 in the fourth.
The Athletics cut it to 2-1 in the fifth on a pop-fly RBI double by Carlos Cortes that Adames lost in the sun at shortstop before it bounced off a diving Chapman's glove.
Nick Kurtz walked three times and extended his on-base streak to 40 games, tied for the third-longest in A's history behind Mark McGwire (62) and Rickey Henderson (46).
Sam Hentges, Keaton Winn and Joel Peguero closed it out for the Giants.
Springs (3-4) allowed two runs — one earned — and five hits in six innings.
Giants LHP Robbie Ray (3-5, 3.04 ERA) starts Monday's series opener in Arizona against RHP Zac Gallen (1-4, 5.02).
Athletics RHP J.T. Ginn (2-1, 3.12 ERA) starts Monday on the road opposite Angels RHP Walbert Ureña (1-4, 3.29).
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San Francisco Giants designated hitter Casey Schmitt (10) singles during a baseball game against the Athletics, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)
San Francisco Giants' Luis Arraez is greeted in the dugout after his home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)
Athletics pitcher Jeffrey Springs reacts after a balk is called on him during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants Sunday, May 17, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)
San Francisco Giants' Harrison Bader, front right, is greeted at home plate by Jung Hoo Lee (51) after hitting a grand slam in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)
San Francisco Giants' Harrison Bader hits a grand slam in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Sunday, May 17, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)
