The candidate Roberto Sanchezclose to the former leftist president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), rapture this Wednesday to Rafael López Aliaga second place in the scrutiny of the presidential elections in Peru and is heading to play the second round against Keiko Fujimori.
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The presidential candidate of Peru Rafael López Aliaga, from the Popular Renewal party. Photo:AFP
With the 91.5 percent of the vote, Fujimori (Fuerza Popular) obtains 17 percent of valid votes, equivalent to 2,636,457 ballots, while Sánchez (Together for Peru) has 12.1 percentthanks to the 1,822,961 ballots in his favor, above López Aliaga (Popular Renovation), which registers 11.8 percent with 1,832,982 votes.
Since the count reached 70 percent and until now, Sánchez managed to reduce a disadvantage of 500,000 votes in front of López Aliaga and get over itwhich coincides with the moment in which the calculation of the rural areas votewhere the leftist candidate is the most voted.
Meanwhile, López Aliaga concentrates his vote mostly in the capital, Limaand in the main cities of the country, whose results are counted first; in contrast, Sánchez reaped his support in rural areaswhere he promoted the ‘Castillista Route’ with the promise of free the imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo and resume his political project, truncated after the attempted coup d’état that he carried out in 2022.
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In fourth placenear Sánchez and López Aliaga, is the centrist Jorge Nieto (Good Government Party), with the 11.1 percent of valid voteswhich means 1,710,615 ballots.
The Peruvian presidential candidate of the Fuerza Popular party, Keiko Fujimori. Photo:AFP
López Aliaga calls for ‘civil insurgency’
Upon noticing the imminence of this scenario and with his rival already surpassing him by more than 30,000 votes, López Aliaga denounced an alleged fraud without evidencealleging that he was harmed by delays in the opening of voting locations in Limacaused by delays in the distribution of electoral material that had to reach the schools.
This Tuesday, the businessman and former mayor of Lima gathered hundreds of his followers to call them to “civil insurgency” already “set fire to the prairie”at the same time He asked again to arrest Piero Corvetto, head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE)in charge of organizing the elections.
He did it even though a large part of the foreign vote needs to be computed, more similar to López Aliaga than to Sánchez, and resolve more than 3,000 minutes that have been challenged for irregularities of different kinds.
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Fujimori awaits rival
The second round will mark the fourth consecutive occasion in which the daughter and political heir of former president Alberto Fujimori compete in this instance, after having been defeated in the previous three by Ollanta Humala (2011), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016) and Pedro Castillo (2021).
Sánchez managed to reduce a disadvantage of 500,000 votes with respect to López Aliaga and surpass him. Photo:EFE
More than 27.3 million Peruvians were summoned Sunday to elect your national authorities for the period 2026-2031among them the Presidency, through which they have passed eight leaders in the last ten yearsin a spiral of political crises.
The day was marked by problems in the distribution of electoral material in several districts of Lima, which caused delays in the start of voting and even the Voting prevented in 13 schools of the capital, which left 52,261 people without exercising their right; Subsequently, the electoral jury ordered that it be resolved with the extension of voting until this Monday.
