According to the latest update, the Popular Force party candidate has 9,136,432 votes, while the Juntos pelo Peru candidate has 9,100,083 votes
The right-wing candidate for President of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, increased her lead over the left-wing candidate, Roberto Sánchez, as the counting of the results of the second round of the presidential elections on the 7th approaches the end.
Keiko Fujimori now registers 0.2% more, or 36,349 votes, than Sanchez, with 99.152% of the votes already counted and the leader of Juntos pelo Peru called for a large demonstration for this Friday in “defense of the popular vote”, in protest against the alleged “lack of transparency” of electoral bodies.
Fujimori’s electoral result rose this Tuesday to 50.1% of the votes counted, against Sánchez’s 49.9%, with only 787 minutes remaining contested due to alleged irregularities, which were sent to the country’s special electoral juries (JEE).
According to the latest update from the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), the Popular Force party candidate has 9,136,432 votes, while the Juntos pelo Peru candidate has 9,100,083 votes.
The remaining votes still need to be reviewed in the minutes sent to the JEEs and, if the differences persist, they will be subjected to a new recount of votes in a public hearing.
On Monday, the National Elections Jury (JNE) once again set the deadline for declaring the results of the second presidential round to mid-July, less than two weeks before the constitutional deadline for the transfer of power and the start of the next government term in Peru (2026-2031).
Together for Peru called for a “great national mobilization”, as it called it, next Friday, with the participation of delegations from regions, provinces and districts of the country, called to attend a gathering starting at 4pm (10pm in Lisbon) in Campo de Marte park, in Lima.
The left-wing party denounced an alleged “lack of transparency” on the part of the bodies responsible for the electoral process, and Sánchez stated on the social network X that “the right to democratic surveillance and peaceful mobilization is a constitutional right”.
For its part, the Organization of American States (OAS) electoral observation mission in Peru called on the JEE to act “as quickly as the circumstances require”, although it highlighted that, during its observation process, it found that they “work diligently and in accordance with the law to resolve all disputes”.
“However, it is imperative that the capabilities and working hours of these temporary electoral authorities be expanded so that pending processes, which represent less than 1% of the minutes, can be resolved as quickly as possible”, he safeguarded.
The mission stressed that justice in electoral matters “must be effective and timely to guarantee certainty regarding this second round of the presidential elections, which took place normally”, and reiterated that it did not identify irregularities that could call into question the integrity of the information presented by the electoral authority.
A week ago, the OAS presented a preliminary observation report on the second round of the presidential elections, in which it highlighted that Peru should implement a system of digital transmission of minutes at national level that would allow preliminary results to be presented quickly.
