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Montevideo, July 10th 2026 - 12:26 UTC

Tag: Peru elections

  • Thursday, June 11th 2026 - 09:04 UTC

    Fujimori edges ahead of Sánchez in Peru as expat ballots flip a razor-thin count

    Fujimori reappeared at the door of her home to ask Sánchez to keep his commitment to respect the final result

    Conservative Keiko Fujimori reclaimed first place on Wednesday night in Peru's presidential runoff, in a count being decided vote by vote that took a decisive turn with the arrival of ballots from Peruvians abroad. With 98.2% of the tally sheets processed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Fujimori reached 50.002% against 49.999% for leftist Roberto Sánchez, a difference of fewer than a thousand votes. If the trend holds, the Fuerza Popular leader could become the country's first woman elected president at the polls.

  • Friday, June 5th 2026 - 23:56 UTC

    Fujimori and Sánchez close campaigns in Lima before Peru's tight Sunday runoff

    Fujimori said the country had become “trapped in its wounds” and stressed the need to “build bridges” toward dialogue. Sánchez aimed his message at his rival: “The chaos is over,” he said

    Peru's presidential candidates, conservative Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez, closed their campaigns in Lima on Thursday before thousands of supporters, three days before a runoff that polls suggest will be very close. Fujimori appealed for the “unity and reconciliation” of Peruvians, while Sánchez promised to end the “chaos” and centered his speech on anti-fujimorismo.

  • Sunday, April 19th 2026 - 23:23 UTC

    Peru elections: Sanchez rules out expropriations, seeks to calm markets as he secures second place

    Sánchez presented his candidacy as the voice of the “popular, communal, Andean and Amazonian movement” and is proposing a new Constitution for the country

    Left-wing presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez, who with 93.48% of ballots counted holds second place in Peru's election and is headed for a June 7 runoff against Keiko Fujimori, ruled out expropriations as part of his governing program and accused economic elites of spreading “financial panic” around his candidacy.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 23:55 UTC

    Rural vote upends Peru count: leftist Sanchez overtakes Lopez Aliaga and advances to runoff

    “Because it's the popular movement and the highland areas, it has to be fraud. Show the evidence. No vote is worth more than another, Mr. López Aliaga,” Sánchez said

    The count in Peru's presidential election produced a dramatic reversal on Wednesday. With 91% of ballots processed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), leftist Roberto Sánchez (Juntos por el Perú) surged from sixth to second place, displacing ultraconservative Rafael López Aliaga (Renovación Popular) and positioning himself for the June 7 runoff against Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular), who holds first place with 16.99% of the vote.

  • Monday, April 13th 2026 - 10:55 UTC

    Peru extends voting to Monday as Fujimori and Lopez Aliaga emerge as runoff contenders

    The official ONPE count, with 47% of ballots processed at the time of publication, showed Fujimori in first place with 17.05%, followed by López Aliaga at 15.36%

    Peru will hold an unprecedented supplementary voting day on Monday: more than 52,000 citizens unable to cast ballots on Sunday due to logistical failures will vote at 187 polling stations in Lima and in the overseas jurisdictions of Orlando, Florida, and Paterson, New Jersey. The National Elections Jury (JNE) authorized the extension and urged polling firms to suspend the release of surveys to avoid influencing remaining voters.

  • Sunday, April 12th 2026 - 23:49 UTC

    Peru closes a troubled election day and begins a lengthy count with outcome uncertain

    Photo: Angela Ponce / Reuters

    More than 10,000 polling centers closed in Peru on Sunday after a ten-hour voting day disrupted by logistical failures that forced authorities to extend the schedule by one hour, to 6:00 p.m. local time. The National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) reported that 99.8% of polling stations were installed, but 15 voting centers in Lima — containing 211 stations — could not be set up, leaving 63,300 voters unable to cast ballots.

  • Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    Peru's Congress agrees to reconsider moving elections forward

    The motion to reconsider was approved, Williams announced

    Peru's one-house Congress Monday approved by 66 votes in favor, 49 against, and 6 abstentions to reconsider a previous decision on not moving forward the elections to sometime this year. Lawmakers are now to decide on a possible date.

  • Tuesday, July 20th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

    Castillo to be Peru's next president after all

    Castillo will be sworn in on July 28

    Peru's National Electoral Jury (JNE) Monday declared leftist Pedro Castillo has won June 6's presidential runoff by 44,263 votes (50.12%) over the conservative Keiko Fujimori.

  • Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

    Peruvian prosecution to investigate Keiko Fujimori's alleged “disturbing of the vote”

    Keiko Fujimori has vowed not to accept what she calls electoral fraud

    Peru's State Attorney has announced conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori is to be investigated for allegedly disturbing the electoral process through the filing of 760 requests for annulment of different polling stations after June 6's presidential runoff.

  • Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

    Yet another setback for Keiko Fujimori's legal effort to become President of Peru

    Peru still needs to know who will become President in late July

    Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE) Tuesday found seven additional appeals from conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori against the outcome of June 6's presidential elections to be unfounded.

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