Peru's conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori vowed to restore "order and hope" as final results showed she narrowly won election in the latest victory for a resurgent Latin American right.

She inherits the task of running a country hit by powerful organised crime gangs and chronic political instability, as it burned through eight presidents in the past decade.

Her win also means the name Fujimori is back in the presidential palace more than two decades after the fall of her late iron-fisted father, Alberto. His record and legacy, which include jail time for human rights crimes, still divides the country.

Keiko Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling leftist Roberto Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.

"Each time we draw closer to starting on the path of order and hope for all Peruvians," she wrote on X after being proclaimed the winner.

The 51-year-old daughter of the late Fujimori secured the top office on her fourth attempt.

The election was fought on rising crime and chronic political instability best exemplified by the revolving door presidency.

With extortion gangs and contract killings on the rise, Fujimori vowed a strong hand, like that of her autocratic father.

Alberto Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000, won praise for crushing Maoist rebels and taming hyperinflation but was later disgraced, exiled and jailed for corruption and crimes against humanity committed in the name of fighting what he considered terrorism.

Fujimori will take office on July 28 for a five-year term.

She is the latest in a string of Latin American leaders to ride a wave of right-wing sentiment and anger over rising crime to their country's top office – the others including Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile.

Fujimori acknowledged her country is deeply divided.

"We have the responsibility of listening to both sides. The doors for dialogue are open," she said, alluding to Sanchez and others on the left. (AFP)


Edited by Priscilla Ng