BREAKING: Peru makes electoral results official and Renovación Popular announces that it will challenge them
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Peru knows the official results of the elections. After five weeks of uncertainty and waiting, the president of the JNE Roberto Burneo, stated this Sunday, May 17, that the results of the elections “are already defined.” The right-wing Keiko Fujimori, from the Fuerza Popular party, and the left-wing Roberto Sánchez, from Together for Peru, will compete in the second round scheduled for June 7. According to Burneo, the result was determined “by the country’s highest electoral authority, which has the final decision in this matter.” He specified that all the decisions of the National Election Jury (JNE) “at this stage have already been made, they are final” and that “any additional request or formulation” will not change anything. According to the count, Keiko Fujimori obtained 17.19% of the votes with 2,877,678 votes and Roberto Sánchez 12.03% with 2,015,114 votes. Rafael López Aliaga came in third place with 11.91% with 1,993,905 votes. To display this YouTube content, you must allow advertising and audience measurement cookies. Accept Manage my options An extension in your browser appears to be blocking the video player from loading. In order to view this content, you must disable it on this site. Try again © France 24 The official results took more than a month to be known due to a very complex electoral process, very close results between the candidates and the presence of a large number of records with irregularities that had to be examined by the electoral juries. The Electoral Observation Mission of the European Union reported, on April 14, that “these general elections were the most complex in the recent history of the Republic of Peru.” Renovación Popular requests annulment of the results The right-wing Renovación Popular party reported this Sunday that it will present a request to have the results annulled. The former candidate for vice president for Popular Renewal, Norma Yarrow, assured journalists that the legal representative of her party presented the appeal arguing that the JNE made the results official without having resolved more than 20 appeals presented by the party. “For us, this proclamation is invalid (…) The first round of the presidential election is not ready for the proclamation of results. For this reason, I request the annulment of the election proclamation record,” the document stated, as reported by Yarrow. Far-right candidate López Aliaga speaks at a rally with a group of supporters on May 14 in Lima, Peru. EFE – John Reyes Mejia In addition to the appeal before the JNE, he also stated that he will complain before the Prosecutor’s Office and the Constitutional Court and that the party “is not going to stop” with these processes. He also called for the “removal” of the president of the JNE, Roberto Burneo. “We will defend until the last instance that these elections were flawed in several ways,” he concluded. Yarrow assures that there were irregularities in the electoral process with “a criminal organization” behind it. For his part, Burneo explained that the Prosecutor’s Office and the Constitutional Court “are not to define electoral matters” and that the decisions of the JNE “at this stage have already been made, they are unappealable” and that “any request or formulation” that is made will not change in any way. Burneo added that JNE members do not feel “pressured under any circumstances and by anyone.” Irregularities in the electoral process On voting day held on April 12, there were long delays in the opening of polling stations in Lima and voting had to be extended until the next day. López Aliaga denounced fraud without presenting evidence and requested complementary elections as well as an international audit of the process. Although irregularities were confirmed on election day, both the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union, which were on an electoral observation mission, indicated that there were no signs of fraud. They consider the results to be credible and transparent. FILE – Members of the Special Electoral Jury count the votes of the general elections in Lima, Peru, on April 22, 2026. © Guadalupe Pardo / AP After the official proclamation of the results, the delegation of OAS observers called for “a process with a high sense of democratic responsibility.” He called to put aside “confrontations or threats, as well as speeches that generate social division.” “The EOM/OAS in Peru makes a special call to the contending candidates so that the campaigns are based on clear government ideas and proposals,” he explained. The second round will be held on June 7, with the presence of the OAS electoral observation mission throughout the country, as well as in some cities abroad. It will be determined who will govern Peru for the next five years, in the midst of prolonged political instability in which nine leaders succeeded one another in the last 10 years. With EFE
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