The gap between Peru's two presidential candidates narrowed to less than 20,000 votes Tuesday with 96% of ballots counted after Sunday's runoff contest. The winner will be the South American country’s ninth president in 10 years.

Preliminary results from Sunday's presidential runoff election in Peru showed an exceptionally tight race Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez.

Peruvians will elect their new president Sunday with polls suggesting a polarized but tight race between hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez.

Peru's presidential race tightened overnight with candidates now separated by less than 0.1% as overseas ballots are swinging the race

The runoff pit a leftist seeking to win over undecided centrists against a right-winger with a tough-on-crime sales pitch.

Trujillo mourned its dead, killed in crime waves that have targeted this Peruvian city. Small business owners struggle and extortion by gangs is rampant as in many other places across the South American country.

This Sunday, at the age of 51, the eldest daughter of Peru’s late former president will make her fourth attempt at winning the presidency in a runoff election