The delay in the delivery of electoral material in southern Lima, which affected the development of the 2026 General Elections, has caused attention to focus on the process developed by the ONPE to select the Galaga company as the one in charge of distributing said material.
The Commerce accessed documents that show that Galaga was chosen by the ONPE to transport the electoral material despite the fact that its economic proposal, amounting to S/ 6,368,332.75, was higher compared to the other two competitors.
During the process convened by the ONPE, the AFE Consortium presented an economic proposal of S/ 5,898,928.66, while Hermes Transportes Blindados made a proposal of S/ 6,200,184.56. These amounts were evidently lower than what Galaga proposed.
Another point to highlight in the case is that in the terms of reference of the contract it is established that the participating company must be the owner of 40 vehicles, but in recent weeks it was evident that Galaga made a call on social networks for the rental of 400 vans.
The Galaga headquarters, with a blue façade, is located in San Juan de Lurigancho. (Photo: Mario Zapata/El Comercio)
Another of the conditions of the process is that the participating companies had to present a policy of 20 million soles to cover electoral material in the event of theft, assaults, accidents or terrorist acts. They were also required to attach another policy of 29 million soles to cover possible damages to ONPE’s computer equipment.
The document containing the terms of reference of the contract was signed by two ONPE officials: Juan Antonio Phang Sánchez, deputy manager of Electoral Production, and José Edilberto Samamé Blas, then manager of Electoral Management and who resigned from his position after the scandal over the delay in the delivery of the material.
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Samamé Blas was arrested last Monday by agents of the Anti-Corruption Directorate (Dircocor) of the Police for a case of flagrante delicto for an alleged crime of omission, refusal or delay of functional acts. In the case of Phang Sánchez, he has an investigation open for allegedly being a member of a criminal organization that penetrated the ONPE and the deactivated National Council of the Judiciary (CNM) to favor the party of José Luna Gálvez. He is accused of having pressured other officials of the electoral entity to accelerate the registration of Podemos Peru.
The ONPE used criteria that favored Galaga in the process of awarding the material transfer service
The tender carried out by the ONPE, on March 9, for the awarding of the transportation service for electoral material would have had a change that favored Galaga, according to what it told The Commerce a source close to said process.
According to that version, the ONPE used a “criterion” for the technical evaluation of the proposals that was not included in the bases, which surprised Consorcio AFE and Hermes, since this evidently favored Galaga.
Given this, the two companies recorded in a notarial document to question the ONPE’s decision to use said “criterion” to determine the useful capacity of each vehicle that would be used in the transportation of electoral material.
The AFE consortium questioned that the ONPE committee had decided that in order to find the cubic meter of each vehicle, the two meters of the unit’s cabin would be removed. For its part, Hermes argued that “the terms of reference of the contract establish that the calculation of the cubic meter of each vehicle is carried out based on or based on the dimensions of the single circulation card and that no other criteria are specified in the terms of reference to be able to establish the payload of the vehicles.”
These are the observations that Hermes and Consorcio AFE made regarding the criteria used by ONPE and that ended up favoring Galaga.
The representatives of the electoral entity explained that the two meters of the vehicle cabin should not be taken into account because the driver, the co-pilot and the ONPE commissioner are in that space, so the electoral material should not be included.
This “criterion” used by ONPE allowed Galaga to obtain 100 points in the technical score, while Hermes and Consorcio AFE obtained 80 and 70 points, respectively.
In a brief statement, the AFE Consortium clarified that it was not contracted to provide the transportation and distribution service for ONPE electoral material.
Galaga’s response
Galaga pointed out, by way of defense in a statement, that the delays presented in the final stage of the electoral material distribution process “do not respond to contractual breaches” on their part, but rather “to factors beyond our operational responsibility.”
For this reason, he rejected “any statement that seeks to exclusively attribute to him the difficulties presented” in the delivery of electoral material. “Our company has strictly complied with all the obligations established in the terms of reference of the contracted service, which are duly supported and documented,” Galaga said in its statement.
“The transportation service was planned and executed in accordance with the requirements and schedules provided by the ONPE, depending at all times on the coordination, timely delivery and logistical conditions defined by the entity itself,” he added.
Galaga asked the ONPE to issue “clarifications” and offer a public apology for the damage caused to its “institutional image.” He stressed that he handed over to the Police all the information regarding the contract with the electoral entity.
Another fact that has attracted attention is that Galaga, in May 2025, increased its capital by 5 million soles, according to a Sunarp document.
Miraflores clarifies case of van with its logo that distributed electoral material
An event that surprised many people during the electoral process was seeing a van with the logo of the Municipality of Miraflores distributing material that the ONPE had delivered to the Galaga company. This fact was confirmed by the Comptroller’s Office during its inspection of the electoral entity’s headquarters last Friday.
Given this, the Municipality of Miraflores clarified, in a statement sent to The Commercethat the truck with license plate F4-1862 provided service only to the municipality in September 2025 and that currently does not maintain any link with the municipality.
For this reason, it announced that it will initiate actions to prevent its institutional logo from “being used outside the services of the Miraflores municipal administration.”
