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Peru seeks second candidate for presidential runoff, leftist Sanchez gains ground

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LIMA, April 15 (Reuters) - ‌Peru entered on Wednesday its fourth day ​of vote counting with no clear second candidate to face conservative ⁠leader Keiko Fujimori in a presidential runoff, official data showed with about 90% of ballots counted. 

Left-wing congressman, Roberto Sanchez, ​and right-wing former Lima mayor, Rafael Lopez Aliaga, are vying for ‌second place with about 12% of the votes, followed closely by center-left candidate Jorge Nieto with roughly 11%, Peru's electoral ⁠body, ONPE, said. 

Sanchez moved into second place ⁠in the tight election overnight, while Fujimori, a former congresswoman and the daughter of late former President Alberto Fujimori, remained in first place with 16.9% of the vote ‌in Sunday's election, according to the official tally.

She is set ⁠to advance to a runoff expected ‌to occur on June 7, in ​her fourth bid for the presidency of the Andean country. Her opponent remains unclear, with three candidates neck ‌and neck in the vote count, while ​none of them was ⁠able to achieve the 50% of the votes ‌needed to win outright.

As ⁠counting continues, allegations of fraud have started to spread more widely. Lopez Aliaga and Sanchez have shown concerns about the ​integrity of the ‌process with Lopez Aliaga sharing early Wednesday a post that ⁠called for Keiko to request ​the proceedings to be annulled. 

(Reporting by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez, Marco ​Aquino and Leila Miller;)

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