[News] Peru's Sanchez Denounces Electoral Fraud and Vows Not to Recognize Fujimori

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Peru's Sanchez Denounces Electoral Fraud and Vows Not to Recognize Fujimori
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Peruvian Presidential Candidate Roberto Sanchez (C), June 23, 2026. Photo:
EFE
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June 23, 2026
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The leftist candidate calls for annulment of overseas vote after detecting
procedural changes and manipulation.

On Tuesday, Presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez denounced an electoral
fraud in progress and warned that he would not recognize far-right
politician Keiko Fujimori as Peru’s president.

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At a news conference, Sanchez argued for the annulment of overseas voting,
saying the electoral rule was changed before the runoff and that ballots
were not adequately protected until their arrival in Lima.

The annulment of that vote, he said, would confirm that he was the winning
candidate and the top vote-getter within national territory.

According to a tally with 99.71% of votes counted, Fujimori had 50.11% of
valid votes against Sanchez’s 49.88%. The difference between the two
candidates was just 40,468 votes.

However, the percentages reverse if overseas votes are subtracted, giving
Sanchez 50.11% of the valid votes with 40,925 more ballots than Fujimori,
who registers 49.88%.

Because of this anomaly, Sanchez maintains that overseas voting was
“gravely” affected when consulates were exempted from digitally sending
overseas voting results and were instead required to physically ship the
tally sheets to Lima for counting.

He said this procedure came at the request of Foreign Affairs Minister
Carlos Pareja, a politician clearly linked to Fujimorism.

The leader of the party Juntos por el Peru, who ran on behalf of imprisoned
former President Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), alleged that the transfer of
tally sheets to Lima was done without guarantees to prevent manipulation.

The candidate asserted Tuesday that “in that affectation, there has been a
manipulation of that vote in favor of the Fuerza Popular party of Ms. Keiko
Fujimori,” he said.

“This serious irregularity constitutes a fraud in progress because the
voting carried out by consular offices continues to be counted, but today
we believe it is the National Elections Jury (JNE) that must stop this
action, since the intangibility of electoral regulations has been
transgressed,” he added.

Sanchez said that “if the JNE does not resolve in the interest of legal
certainty, that fraud will have been consummated.”

“Under those conditions of transgression of the rules, we will not
recognize the government of Ms. Fujimori, and we will carry out the
democratic struggle within the framework of the law and the Constitution,”
continued the candidate, who called for mobilizing in the streets.

Sanchez made an appeal to civil society and democratic forces “to recover
democracy for Peru and not have five more years of the capture of democracy
and institutions.”

Sanchez emphasized that the provision that prevented the transmission of
overseas results “is the evident and factual proof, which needs no further
demonstration, that the nature of the electoral process has been broken.”
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