Pedro Pablo wins Peru presidential election
The economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski have won the majority of votes in Peru's cliff-hanger presidential election.
• The electoral commission said he received 50.12% of votes, against 49.88% for his rival, Keiko Fujimori.
• About 50,000 ballots must first be settled by an electoral court before a winner can be officially declared.
• This has been the tightest fought election in Peru in five decades.
• As the last few votes were counted, the candidates remained neck-and-neck, with Mr Kuczynski leading by a tiny margin.
• The closeness of the result came as a surprise after polls in the run-up to the election had suggested Ms Fujimori had a comfortable lead.
• 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.
• She is the daughter of Peru's former President, Alberto Fujimori, who is in jail for crimes against humanity.
• 'Promoting economic growth'
• 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.