With 95% of the votes already counted, Sánchez and López Aliaga compete vote by vote for second place; Keiko Fujimori is the only candidate with a guaranteed place
The National Elections Jury (JNE) of Peru rejected this Friday (24) the possibility of holding complementary elections in Lima given the irregularities recorded in the electoral process of April 12, and ratified that the presidential second round will be on June 7th.
“The Plenum of the JNE, after technical-legal analysis and in consideration of the reports issued by the competent bodies, unanimously decided to declare the holding of complementary elections unfeasible,” said the electoral body in a statement released on social media.
The ultraconservative candidate and former mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga, who is still competing for the second round with the leftist Roberto Sánchez, had requested a new election in the capital, claiming that problems at polling stations prevented thousands of his supporters from voting. With 95% of the votes already counted, Sánchez and López Aliaga compete vote by vote for second placewith a slight advantage of 20 thousand votes for the radical leftist. Keiko Fujimori is the only candidate with a guaranteed place.
Not requested, it was indicated that delays in the distribution of electoral material prevented more than 50 thousand people from voting. This forced authorities to extend voting by one day.
Earlier, police carried out a search operation at the home of the former head of the electoral body that organized the election, Piero Corvetto, as part of an investigation into alleged collusion related to the vote. Corvetto resigned on Tuesday, shortly before being questioned by the Public Ministry, amid the multiple failures in the April 12 election day that delayed the counting of votes.
