Carrie Con

Electoral officials are still counting the votes and estimate they may not have the final results until the middle of next month.

The conservative daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori took the first place spot out of a field of 35.

But all eyes are on second place to challenge Keiko Fujimori in the June general election.

Right now, a little more than 10,000 votes separate the two top vote-getters.

Leading is a nationalist congressman who allies with an imprisoned leftist former president.

In third place, an ultra-conservative politician.

Peru has been suffering from a perpetual political crisis with its conservative Congress, liberally using a constitutional clause to remove and appoint presidents.

Carrie Conn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.

win back Trump's support, heaping praise on him in media interviews and pledging to share her Nobel Peace Prize.

But Trump has signaled for now his support is solidly behind Venezuela's interim leader, Delce Rodriguez, with whom Trump says he recently had a good conversation.

Machado's political party is widely seen as the legitimate winners of the 2024 presidential election that then-leader Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won.

Machado led huge protests, and according to multiple recent

polls remains widely popular inside Venezuela.

However, following the U.S.

military action, Trump surprisingly dismissed Machado and has diminished calls for new elections and democratic reforms.

Carrie Conn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.